Estimated build time: 2 minutes Estimated required disk space: 21 MB
Install E2fsprogs by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix=/ \ --enable-elf-shlibs && make && make install && make install-libs
--with-root-prefix=/: The reason for supplying this option is because of the setup of the e2fsprogs Makefile. Some programs are essential for system use when, for example, /usr isn't mounted (like the e2fsck program). These programs and libraries therefore belong in directories like /lib and /sbin. If this option isn't passed to e2fsprogs' configure, it places these programs in /usr which is not what we want.
--enable-elf-shlibs: This creates shared libraries that some programs in this package can make use of.
make install-libs: This installs the shared libraries that are built.
The e2fsprogs package contains the chattr, lsattr, uuidgen, badblocks, debugfs, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, e2label, fsck, fsck.ext2, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mklost+found and tune2fs programs.
chattr changes the file attributes on a Linux second extended file system.
lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended file system.
The uuidgen program creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID) using the libuuid library. The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique among all UUIDs created on the local system, and among UUIDs created on other systems in the past and in the future.
badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device (usually a disk partition).
The debugfs program is a file system debugger. It can be used to examine and change the state of an ext2 file system.
dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem present on a specified device.
e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file system. fsck.ext2 does the same as e2fsck.
e2label will display or change the filesystem label on the ext2 filesystem located on the specified device.
fsck is used to check and optionally repair a Linux file system.
mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device (usually a disk partition). mkfs.ext2 does the same as mke2fs.
mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system. mklost+found pre-allocates disk blocks to the directory to make it usable by e2fsck.
tune2fs adjusts tunable filesystem parameters on a Linux second extended filesystem.
E2fsprogs-1.22 needs the following to be installed:
sh from the bash package
ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
cmp from the diffutils package
chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
sync from the fileutils package
cc from the gcc package
egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package
gzip from the gzip package
make from the make package
awk from the mawk package
sed from the sed package
basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package
makeinfo from the texinfo package
cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package