> Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Recently when doing some ICA on e2fsprogs I noticed that /sbin/e2fsck > > is statically linked. Is this what we want? I might need a solid > > blow from the cluebat, but seems most of the time we make shared > > binaries when possible. e2fsprogs builds both a shared and static > > e2fsck, but copies e2fsck.static to e2fsck by default. To have the > > shared e2fsck installed, you can add --enable-dynamic-e2fsck to the > > configure line. > > > > Since all the shared libs it links to are in /lib, there wouldn't be > > an issue of an unmounted /usr. > > Well, if the file-system is corrupted, wouldn't you want to be using as > few files on that system as possible as you run fsck on it? > > -- > JH
Except that you typically run fsck on an unmounted disk, so a fsck binary on the damaged partition isn't going to help you, whether it is linked to other libraries or not. Jeremy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
