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diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
index f10b8077b..ca9268d48 100644
--- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -122,17 +122,19 @@ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/tools/lib/pkgconfig \
<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
+ <para>To set up the test suite we need to temporarily copy
+ a library from /tools/lib so the test programs can find it.
+ To run the tests, issue:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">cp -v /tools/lib/libblkid.so.1 /lib
+make check
+rm -v /lib/libblkid.so.1</userinput></screen>
<para>One of the E2fsprogs tests will attempt to allocate 256 MB of memory.
If you do not have significantly more RAM than this, be sure to enable
sufficient swap space for the test. See <xref
linkend="space-creatingfilesystem"/> and <xref linkend="space-mounting"/>
- for details on creating and enabling swap space. Additionally,
- three tests try to allocate a two terabyte partition and will fail
- unless you have at least that much unused disk space available.</para>
+ for details on creating and enabling swap space.</para>
<para>Install the binaries, documentation, and shared libraries:</para>