1 To install the second extended file system management programs, 2 just follow the steps: 3 4 1) Change directory into the top of the e2fsprogs source tree 5 6 2) Create a build directory and cd into it: 7 8 mkdir build; cd build 9 10 3) Run the configure script 11 12 ../configure 13 14 If you wish to turn on ELF shared libraries, add the option 15 --enable-elf-shlibs. If you wish to build profiling libraries, add 16 the option --enable-profile. 17 18 Note that if you are building on an older system (i.e., a 2.4 19 kernel and/or glibc 2.2), the use of thread local storage will probably 20 cause programs that use the uuid library to core dump. To disable 21 thread local storage, use the configure option --disable-tls. 22 23 4) Compile the programs 24 25 make 26 27 5) Check to make sure the installation built correctly: 28 29 make check 30 31 6) Install the programs 32 33 Run `make install' 34 35 7) Install the include files and libraries 36 37 You can run `make install-libs' to install the include files and 38 libraries. Please note that this installation is not needed for the 39 programs to work. It is only needed if you expect to develop other 40 programs using the libraries or if you want to compile other program 41 using these libraries (like the 4.4BSD dump and restore port). 42 43 8) Remove any pre-formatted man pages. 44 45 Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which 46 will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man. 47 If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to 48 see the correct manual pages. The shell script in 49 install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so. 50 51 9) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct. 52 53 Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the 54 fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump 55 frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with 56 this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing 57 fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that 58 fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in 59 your /etc/fstab file look liks this: 60 61 /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 62 63 you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this: 64 65 /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 66 67 There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by 68 Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file. 69 70
