e2fsprogs
The ext2fsprogs package contains essential ext2 filesystem utilities which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other core ext2 filesystem utilities.
| Tags | Software Development Libraries Filesystems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 01 Jul 2007 14:45
Changes: Numerous bugfixes and enhancements. All users are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
- 17 Oct 2005 10:26
Changes: This release fixes blkid's test programs, an ia64 core dump, the com_err library, messages, Mke2fs and badblocks, and a portability problem in the filefrag program. Mke2fs will now use a larger journal by default for filesystems greater than 4GB. Mke2fs will refuse to create filesystems greater than 2**31-1 blocks, unless forced. The blkid program has a new option,
- 01 Mar 2004 12:51
Changes: e2fsck has a new -k option. Many bugs were fixed, including several potential crashes and some invalid fixes to files in uncommon situations (no lost+found when reconnecting a directory, and journal replay with alt superblock). There are several fixes to journal inode location and superblock backups, bad-blocks, and indirect block corruption handling. This release works again on FreeBSD and has fixes for Darwin.
- 10 Sep 2003 16:59
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 12 Jan 2003 22:05
Changes: This version features minor bugfixes and i18n updates.
