| Summary: | e2fsck was not able to include into /sbin | ||
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| Product: | Busybox | Reporter: | raajesh <raajeshk88> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | unassigned |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | busybox-cvs |
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 1.22.x | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Host: | Target: | ||
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e2fsck is no longer provided by busybox. This is intended: I think that if you do need to repair a filesystem, you'd better use the tool directly from FS developers. |
The busybox version 1.22.1 has e2fsck in old_e2fsprogs but even when enabled the module which was built successfully was not able to install to /sbin. I have seen many threads with similar queries but not responded. Please help to reply soon. My Config.src & .in files is # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file, # see scripts/kbuild/config-language.txt. # menu "Linux Ext2 FS Progs" INSERT config CHATTR bool "chattr" default y help chattr changes the file attributes on a second extended file system. config E2FSCK bool "e2fsck" default y help e2fsck is used to check Linux second extended file systems (ext2fs). e2fsck also supports ext2 filesystems countaining a journal (ext3). The normal compat symlinks 'fsck.ext2' and 'fsck.ext3' are also provided. config FSCK bool "fsck" default y help fsck is used to check and optionally repair one or more filesystems. In actuality, fsck is simply a front-end for the various file system checkers (fsck.fstype) available under Linux. config LSATTR bool "lsattr" default y select PLATFORM_LINUX help lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended file system. ### config MKE2FS ### bool "mke2fs" ### default y ### help ### mke2fs is used to create an ext2/ext3 filesystem. The normal compat ### symlinks 'mkfs.ext2' and 'mkfs.ext3' are also provided. config TUNE2FS bool "tune2fs" default n # off: it is too limited compared to upstream version help tune2fs allows the system administrator to adjust various tunable filesystem parameters on Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems. ### config E2LABEL ### bool "e2label" ### default y ### depends on TUNE2FS ### help ### e2label will display or change the filesystem label on the ext2 ### filesystem located on device. ### NB: this one is now provided by util-l