Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 22:01:07 +0000 From: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net>, Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of ext2fs fsck Message-ID: <3863ED23.8D450052@freenet.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912241619450.25419-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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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
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