Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-25 Thread Alex
James Howard wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or > > > NetBSD is not. > > > > Sure. So is ext2fs for FreeBSD, and some other small programs like gcc. > > Is the ext2fs implementation in Net or Open

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-25 Thread James Howard
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or > > NetBSD is not. > > Sure. So is ext2fs for FreeBSD, and some other small programs like gcc. Is the ext2fs implementation in Net or Open GPL'd? If not, copy it too. Jamie

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-25 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Alex wrote: > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > The current release of the ext2fs utilities seems to be > > ef2fsprogs.1.17.tar.gz. Available in most Linux archies. Requires a > Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or > NetBSD is not. Sure. So

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-24 Thread Alex
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

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Julian Elischer
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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. that makes 2

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Bruce Evans
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 Fr

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Alex
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

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread match
On 23 Dec 99, at 12:26, Donn Miller wrote: > I > installed RedHat Linux on there. Basically, that disk had 3 > Linux partitions: > > 120M / /dev/hdb1 > 120M swap/dev/hdb5 > ~800MB/usr/dev/hdb6 > > Anyhow, when I do fdisk /dev/rad1, FBSD's fsck o

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Chris Piazza
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 p

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Tom Embt
OK for starters, a disclaimer: I have nearly zero experience with Linux. ..but I would guess that it is naming the disk much like BSD does, with hdb1...hdb4 being the four bios partitions (BSD slices) and hdb5 and up being the logical DOS-style partitions inside the other "DOS extended partition

Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-23 Thread Donn Miller
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. Also, I had this weird proble