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- From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
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- Subject: [comp.os.linux] [ANNOUNCE: ext fs progs version alpha 9]
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- Date: 7 Nov 1992 12:52:14 GMT
- Organization: Laboratoire MASI - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris - France
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.os.linux/ANNOUNCE-ext-fs-progs-version-alpha-9
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-
- [This is a repost because my first posting didn't seem to go
- out ...]
-
- The new release of the extended file system programs (efsck and
- mkefs) is available by ftp on ftp-masi.ibp.fr:/pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs and
- should be available soon on tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/extfs.
-
- The changes in this new version (alpha 9) are :
- - mkefs no longer restricts the -i option to 4kb,
- - mkefs can figure the file system size (the size argument is
- now optional), Thanks to Adam Richter <adam@soda.berkeley.edu>
- - efsck returns a status code (0 if no changes, 1 if the file system
- was changed),
- - efsck tries to correct bad directory entries by truncating the
- directories.
-
- This new release is available in different forms :
- - a patch from version alpha 8 to alpha 9 (efsprogs.p9.Z),
- - the full source and binary programs (efsprogs9.tar.Z),
- - the source programs only (efsprogs9.src.tar.Z),
- - the binary programs only (efsprogs9.bin.tar.Z).
-
- I hope that this new release will help in case of bad directory
- entries. I'd like people who have bad directories on an extended file system
- to contact me before running this new version of efsck. There is perhaps a
- bug in the ext fs directory handking routines and I need some dumps from the
- bad directories to check it.
-
- As usual, in case of bugs or strange behaviour of these programs or the
- extended file system itself, feel free to contact me.
-
-
- Remy
- --
-
- Remy Card
- card@masi.ibp.fr
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