INSTALL

   1         To install the second extended file system management programs,
   2 just follow the steps:
   3
   4 1) Change directory into the top of the e2fsprogs source tree
   5
   6 2) Create a build directory and cd into it:
   7
   8         mkdir build; cd build
   9
  10 3)  Run the configure script
  11
  12         ../configure
  13
  14         If you wish to turn on ELF shared libraries, add the option
  15 --enable-elf-shlibs.  If you wish to build profiling libraries, add
  16 the option --enable-profile.
  17
  18         Note that if you are building on an older system (i.e., a 2.4
  19 kernel and/or glibc 2.2), the use of thread local storage will probably
  20 cause programs that use the uuid library to core dump.  To disable
  21 thread local storage, use the configure option --disable-tls.
  22
  23 4)  Compile the programs
  24
  25         make
  26
  27 5)   Check to make sure the installation built correctly:
  28
  29         make check
  30
  31 6)  Install the programs
  32
  33         Run `make install'
  34
  35 7)  Install the include files and libraries
  36
  37         You can run `make install-libs' to install the include files and
  38 libraries.  Please note that this installation is not needed for the
  39 programs to work.  It is only needed if you expect to develop other
  40 programs using the libraries or if you want to compile other program
  41 using these libraries (like the 4.4BSD dump and restore port).
  42
  43 8)  Remove any pre-formatted man pages.
  44
  45         Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which
  46 will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man.
  47 If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to
  48 see the correct manual pages.  The shell script in
  49 install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so.
  50
  51 9)  Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct.
  52
  53         Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the
  54 fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump
  55 frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively.  The problem with
  56 this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing
  57 fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that
  58 fsck should not check that particular filesystem.  If your entries in
  59 your /etc/fstab file look like this:
  60
  61 /dev/hda4       /        ext2        defaults
  62
  63 you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this:
  64
  65 /dev/hda4       /        ext2        defaults   1       1
  66
  67         There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by
  68 Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file.
  69