From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 24 13:54:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.netvision.net.il (alpha.netvision.net.il [194.90.1.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCBFC14D7C for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:54:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: from freenet.co.uk (RAS1-p81.rlz.netvision.net.il [62.0.168.83]) by alpha.netvision.net.il (8.9.3/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA20510; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 23:54:07 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <3863ED23.8D450052@freenet.co.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:01:07 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Evans Cc: Chris Piazza , Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of ext2fs fsck References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: > > > Is there such a beast? This would be a big big help to those who > > > administer Linux boxes from FreeBSD machines. And, it would make > > > life easier for those of us who dual-boot with FreeBSD and > > > Linux. Basically, I'd like to see a port of e2fsck in the ports > > > collection. > > > > I have no idea how much work it'd be, but you or someone else > > could try porting NetBSD's fsck_ext2fs some time. That would > > be what you need. > > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/sbin/fsck_ext2fs/ > > The current release of the ext2fs utilities seems to be > ef2fsprogs.1.17.tar.gz. Available in most Linux archies. Requires a > 1 line patch to build. Requires FreeBSD-3.4 or earlier, or Linux to > run since it requires block devices. The utilities are: > > badblocks chattr(1) debugfs dumpe2fs e2fsck e2label fsck lsattr(1) > mke2fs mklost+found tune2fs uuidgen(1) Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or NetBSD is not. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message