Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:27:20 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> Cc: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of ext2fs fsck Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912241619450.25419-100000@alphplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <19991223101211.A678@norn.ca.eu.org>
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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) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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