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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
commit | 673b0d84ba9591e07c0bdf0ee49d92eba10f502c (patch) | |
tree | 129e27a1450727b440da4378e0117a468eb9c25e /chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml | |
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diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml index 89badb958..4ca8f4b50 100644 --- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml +++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml @@ -1,17 +1,24 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> <sect1 id="ch-system-e2fsprogs" xreflabel="E2fsprogs"> -<title>Installing E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</title> -<?dbhtml filename="e2fsprogs.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<title>E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</title> +<?dbhtml filename="e2fsprogs.html"?> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs"><primary sortas="a-E2fsprogs">E2fsprogs</primary></indexterm> <para>The E2fsprogs package contains the utilities for handling the ext2 file system. It also supports the ext3 journaling file system.</para> -<screen>&buildtime; &e2fsprogs-time; -&diskspace; &e2fsprogs-compsize;</screen> +<screen>&buildtime; 0.6 SBU +&diskspace; 48.4 MB</screen> + +<para>E2fsprogs installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, +Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Texinfo.</para> -&aa-e2fsprogs-down; -&aa-e2fsprogs-dep; -<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title> @@ -24,8 +31,8 @@ cd ../e2fsprogs-build</userinput></screen> <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para> -<screen><userinput>../&e2fsprogs-dir;/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \ - --enable-elf-shlibs</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>../e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \ + --enable-elf-shlibs</userinput></screen> <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para> @@ -41,15 +48,14 @@ to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the want.</para></listitem> <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput>: This creates -the shared libraries which some programs in this package make use -of.</para></listitem> +the shared libraries which some programs in this package use.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>Compile the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> -<para>If you wish to have the results tested, first make sure an mtab file +<para>If you to test the results, first make sure an mtab file exists with <userinput>touch /etc/mtab</userinput> to prevent some sixty tests from failing, and (if it doesn't already exist) fake the presence of an old pager with <userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/cat /bin/more</userinput> to prevent one @@ -59,15 +65,133 @@ test from failing, then issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> -<para>And install also the shared libraries:</para> +<para>Also install also the shared libraries:</para> <screen><userinput>make install-libs</userinput></screen> </sect2> -&aa-e2fsprogs-shortdesc; -&aa-e2fsprogs-desc; -</sect1> +<sect2 id="contents-e2fsprogs"><title>Contents of E2fsprogs</title> + +<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: badblocks, blkid, chattr, +compile_et, debugfs, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, e2image, e2label, findfs, fsck, +fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, logsave, lsattr, mk_cmds, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, +mklost+found, resize2fs, tune2fs and uuidgen.</para> + +<para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: libblkid.[a,so], +libcom_err.[a,so], libe2p.[a,so], libext2fs.[a,so], libss.[a,so] and +libuuid.[a,so]</para> + +</sect2> + + +<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs badblocks"><primary sortas="b-badblocks">badblocks</primary></indexterm> +<para id="badblocks"><command>badblocks</command> searches a device (usually a disk +partition) for bad blocks.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs blkid"><primary sortas="b-blkid">blkid</primary></indexterm> +<para id="blkid"><command>blkid</command> is a command line utility to locate and +print block device attributes.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs chattr"><primary sortas="b-chattr">chattr</primary></indexterm> +<para id="chattr"><command>chattr</command> changes the attributes of files on a +second extended (ext2) file system, and also ext3 file systems, the journaling version of ext2 file systems.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs compile_et"><primary sortas="b-compile_et">compile_et</primary></indexterm> +<para id="compile_et"><command>compile_et</command> is an error table compiler. It +converts a table of error-code names and messages into a C source file +suitable for use with the com_err library.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs debugfs"><primary sortas="b-debugfs">debugfs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="debugfs"><command>debugfs</command> is a file system debugger. It can be +used to examine and change the state of an ext2 file system.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs dumpe2fs"><primary sortas="b-dumpe2fs">dumpe2fs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="dumpe2fs"><command>dumpe2fs</command> prints the super block and blocks group +information for the file system present on a given device.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs e2fsck"><primary sortas="b-e2fsck">e2fsck</primary></indexterm> +<para id="e2fsck"><command>e2fsck</command> is used to check, and optionally repair, +second extended (ext2) file systems, and also ext3 file systems.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs e2image"><primary sortas="b-e2image">e2image</primary></indexterm> +<para id="e2image"><command>e2image</command> is used to save critical ext2 file system +data to a file.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs e2label"><primary sortas="b-e2label">e2label</primary></indexterm> +<para id="e2label"><command>e2label</command> will display or change the file system +label on the ext2 file system present on a given device.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs findfs"><primary sortas="b-findfs">findfs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="findfs"><command>findfs</command> finds a file system by label or UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs fsck"><primary sortas="b-fsck">fsck</primary></indexterm> +<para id="fsck"><command>fsck</command> is used to check, and optionally repair, +file systems. By default it checks the file systems listed in +<filename>/etc/fstab</filename></para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs logsave"><primary sortas="b-logsave">logsave</primary></indexterm> +<para id="logsave"><command>logsave</command> saves the output of a command in a log file.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs lsattr"><primary sortas="b-lsattr">lsattr</primary></indexterm> +<para id="lsattr"><command>lsattr</command> lists the attributes of files on a second +extended file system.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs mk_cmds"><primary sortas="b-mk_cmds">mk_cmds</primary></indexterm> +<para id="mk_cmds"><command>mk_cmds</command> converts a table of command names +and help messages into a C source file suitable for use with the +<filename>libss</filename> subsystem library.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs mke2fs"><primary sortas="b-mke2fs">mke2fs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="mke2fs"><command>mke2fs</command> is used to create a second extended +file system on the given device.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs mklost-found"><primary sortas="b-mklost+found">mklost+found</primary></indexterm> +<para id="mklost-found"><command>mklost+found</command> is used to create a +<filename>lost+found</filename> directory on a second extended file system. +It pre-allocates disk blocks to this directory to lighten the task of e2fsck.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs resize2fs"><primary sortas="b-resize2fs">resize2fs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="resize2fs"><command>resize2fs</command> can be used to enlarge or shrink an +ext2 file system.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs tune2fs"><primary sortas="b-tune2fs">tune2fs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="tune2fs"><command>tune2fs</command> is used adjust tunable file system +parameters on a second extended file system.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs uuidgen"><primary sortas="b-uuidgen">uuidgen</primary></indexterm> +<para id="uuidgen"><command>uuidgen</command> creates new +UUID. Each new UUID can reasonably be considered unique +among all UUIDs created, on the local system and on other systems, in the +past and in the future.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libblkid"><primary sortas="c-libblkid">libblkid</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libblkid"><command>libblkid</command> contains routines for device +identification and token extraction.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libcom_err"><primary sortas="c-libcom_err">libcom_err</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libcom_err"><command>libcom_err</command> is the common error display routine.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libe2p"><primary sortas="c-libe2p">libe2p</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libe2p"><command>libe2p</command> is used by dumpe2fs, chattr, and lsattr.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libext2fs"><primary sortas="c-libext2fs">libext2fs</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libext2fs"><command>libext2fs</command> contains routines to enable user-level +programs to manipulate an ext2 file system.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libss"><primary sortas="c-libss">libss</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libss"><command>libss</command> is used by debugfs.</para> + +<indexterm zone="ch-system-e2fsprogs libuuid"><primary sortas="c-libuuid">libuuid</primary></indexterm> +<para id="libuuid"><command>libuuid</command> contains routines for generating unique +identifiers for objects that may be accessible beyond the local system.</para> + +</sect2> + + + +</sect1> |