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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000
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@@ -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>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</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="" \
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--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>