- To install the second extended file system management program,
+ To install the second extended file system management programs,
just follow the steps:
-1) Edit the file MCONFIG
+1) Change directory into the top of the e2fsprogs source tree
- This file contains definitions used in the various makefiles. These
-definitions have reasonable default value but you may want to adjust them to
-your system configuration.
+2) Create a build directory and cd into it:
-2) Create the dependencies files
+ mkdir build; cd build
- Run `make depend' to create the dependencies files. Note that this
-is not strictly necessary since the makefiles automagically recreates them
-if they do not exist.
+3) Run the configure script
-3) Compile the programs
+ ../configure
- Run `make' to compile the libraries and the programs.
+ If you wish to turn on ELF shared libraries, add the option
+--enable-elf-shlibs. If you wish to build profiling libraries, add
+the option --enable-profile.
-4) Install the programs
+ Note that if you are building on an older system (i.e., a 2.4
+kernel and/or glibc 2.2), the use of thread local storage will probably
+cause programs that use the uuid library to core dump. To disable
+thread local storage, use the configure option --disable-tls.
+
+4) Compile the programs
+
+ make
+
+5) Check to make sure the installation built correctly:
+
+ make check
+
+6) Install the programs
Run `make install'
-5) Install the include files and libraries
+7) Install the include files and libraries
You can run `make install-libs' to install the include files and
libraries. Please note that this installation is not needed for the
programs to work. It is only needed if you expect to develop other
-programs using the libraries.
+programs using the libraries or if you want to compile other program
+using these libraries (like the 4.4BSD dump and restore port).
+
+8) 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.
+
+9) 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 like 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.
- You can run `make world' as an alternative to steps 2 and 3. This
-will create the dependencies files, compile the programs and run e2fsck on
-a test suite contained in e2fsck/images.