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# Installing E2fsprogs-1.34

    Estimated build time:           0.6 SBU
    Estimated required disk space:  48.4 MB

## Contents of E2fsprogs

(Last checked against version 1.34.)

E2fsprogs provides the filesystem utilities for use with the ext2 filesystem. It also supports the ext3 filesystem with journaling support.

Installed programs: badblocks, blkid, chattr, compile_et, debugfs, dumpe2fs, e2fsck, e2image, e2label, findfs, fsck, fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, logsave, lsattr, mk_cmds, mke2fs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mklost+found, resize2fs, tune2fs and uuidgen.

Installed libraries: libblkid.[a,so], libcom_err.[a,so], libe2p.[a,so], libext2fs.[a,so], libss.[a,so] and libuuid.[a,so]

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## E2fsprogs Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.25.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, strip
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, echo, expr, hostname,
install, ln, mkdir, mv, rm, sync, tr, uname
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: awk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp
Glibc: ldconfig
Grep: egrep, grep
Gzip: gzip
Make: make
Sed: sed
Texinfo: makeinfo

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## Installation of E2fsprogs

It is recommended to build E2fsprogs outside of the source tree:

    mkdir ../e2fsprogs-build
    cd ../e2fsprogs-build

Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:

    ../e2fsprogs-1.34/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
        --enable-elf-shlibs

The meaning of the configure options:

- `--with-root-prefix=""`: Certain programs (such as the e2fsck program) are considered essential programs. When, for example, `/usr` isn't mounted, these essential program have to be available. They belong in directories like `/lib` and `/sbin`. If this option isn't passed to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the `/usr` directory, which is not what we want.

- `--enable-elf-shlibs`: This creates the shared libraries which some programs in this package make use of.

Compile the package:

    make

This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

    make check

Install most of the package:

    make install

And install also the shared libraries:

    make install-libs

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