Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 12:26:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote:
> > > Is there such a beast? This would be a big big help to those who
> > > administer Linux boxes from FreeBSD machines. And, it would make
> > > life easier for those of us who dual-boot with FreeBSD and
> > > Linux. Basically, I'd like to see a port of e2fsck in the ports
> > > collection.
> >
> > I have no idea how much work it'd be, but you or someone else
> > could try porting NetBSD's fsck_ext2fs some time. That would
> > be what you need.
> > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/sbin/fsck_ext2fs/
>
> The current release of the ext2fs utilities seems to be
> ef2fsprogs.1.17.tar.gz. Available in most Linux archies. Requires a
> 1 line patch to build. Requires FreeBSD-3.4 or earlier, or Linux to
> run since it requires block devices. The utilities are:
>
> badblocks chattr(1) debugfs dumpe2fs e2fsck e2label fsck lsattr(1)
> mke2fs mklost+found tune2fs uuidgen(1)
Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or
NetBSD is not.
Alex
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