BOOK/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-e2fsprogs" xreflabel="E2fsprogs">
   2 <title>Installing E2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="e2fsprogs.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The E2fsprogs package contains the utilities for handling the ext2
   6 file system. It also supports the ext3 journaling file system.</para>
   7
   8 <screen>&buildtime; &e2fsprogs-time;
   9 &diskspace; &e2fsprogs-compsize;</screen>
  10
  11 &aa-e2fsprogs-down;
  12 &aa-e2fsprogs-dep;
  13
  14 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  15
  16 <sect2>
  17 <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
  18
  19 <para>It is recommended to build E2fsprogs outside of the
  20 source tree:</para>
  21
  22 <screen><userinput>mkdir ../e2fsprogs-build
  23 cd ../e2fsprogs-build</userinput></screen>
  24
  25 <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
  26
  27 <screen><userinput>../&e2fsprogs-dir;/configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
  28 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput></screen>
  29
  30 <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
  31
  32 <itemizedlist>
  33 <listitem><para><userinput>--with-root-prefix=""</userinput>: Certain
  34 programs (such as the e2fsck program) are considered essential programs.
  35 When, for example, <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> isn't
  36 mounted, these essential programs have to be available. They belong in
  37 directories like <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
  38 <filename class="directory">/sbin</filename>. If this option isn't passed
  39 to E2fsprogs's configure, the programs are placed in the
  40 <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> directory, which is not what we
  41 want.</para></listitem>
  42
  43 <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-elf-shlibs</userinput>: This creates
  44 the shared libraries which some programs in this package make use
  45 of.</para></listitem>
  46 </itemizedlist>
  47
  48 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  49
  50 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  51
  52 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  53 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  54 following command will do so:</para>
  55
  56 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  57
  58 <para>Install most of the package:</para>
  59
  60 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  61
  62 <para>And install also the shared libraries:</para>
  63
  64 <screen><userinput>make install-libs</userinput></screen>
  65
  66 </sect2>
  67
  68
  69 &aa-e2fsprogs-shortdesc;
  70 &aa-e2fsprogs-desc;
  71
  72 </sect1>
  73