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- NOTE: This is the ELF version of the binary distribution. If you have
- a DLL system, please either compile e2fsprogs from sources yourself,
- or get the DLL version of the binary distribution. The DLL version
- will have a filename of e2fsprogs-1.04-dllbin.tar.gz
-
-
- To install the binary distribution of the second extended file
- system management programs, just follow the steps:
-
- 1) Install this tar file using the following command:
-
- gunzip < e2fsprogs-1.04-elfbin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar xvf - )
-
- 2) Run ldconfig to update the shared library pointers.
-
- As root, type /sbin/ldconfig. This will update the links to
- the shared libraries included in the distribution. You can then remove
- the old versions of the libraries from /lib.
-
- 3) Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
-
- Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which
- will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man.
- If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to
- see the correct manual pages. The shell script in
- install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so.
-
- 4) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
-
- Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the
- fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump
- frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with
- this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing
- fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that
- fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in
- your /etc/fstab file look liks this:
-
- /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults
-
- you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this:
-
- /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
-
- There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by
- Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file.
-
- 5) Cleanup files from the installation.
-
- When you're done with the installation, you will probably want
- to remove /INSTALL (this file), /README, and /install-utils from your
- root directory
-