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- From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: efsprogs version 7
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.110036.7956@jussieu.fr>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 11:00:36 GMT
- Sender: news@jussieu.fr (Le Facteur)
- Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
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- The new version (alpha 7) of the ext fs programs (efsck and mkefs) is
- available from ftp-masi.ibp.fr:pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. I have uploaded them
- to tsx-11.mit.edu and they should appear soon in pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs. The
- files to get are :
- - efsprogs7.tar.Z : source and binaries,
- - efsprogs7.bin.tar.Z : binary programs only,
- - efsprogs7.src.tar.Z : source programs only.
-
- This version contains the following changes :
- - the Makefile now supports a dep target to create dependencies for
- object files,
- - the computation of the maximal size of a file was broken in mkefs,
- it is now fixed (note that this was not a big problem since the
- ext file system never uses this value),
- - some bugs causing efsck to dump core when the free lists were
- corrupted are fixed,
- - when salvaging the free lists or correcting the free inodes/blocks
- counts, efsck did not write the changes to the disk. Now, it does.
- - Wayne Davison has implemented a conversion from the old .badblocks
- file to a reserved inode in efsck. After conversion, the bad blocks
- do not appear in a file any more so there is no risk to delete or
- backup them.
-
- --
-
- Remy Card
- card@masi.ibp.fr
-