1NOTE: This is the ELF version of the binary distribution. If you have 2a DLL system, please compile e2fsprogs from sources yourself. (In 3fact, in general you're better off compiling e2fsprogs from sources 4instead of using precompiled binaries.) 5 6Also please note that these binaries assume the use of the GNU Libc. 7If you're still using libc5, you'll need build e2fsprogs from source. 8 9 To install the binary distribution of the second extended file 10system management programs, just follow the steps: 11 121) Install this tar file using the following command: 13 14 gunzip < e2fsprogs-1.13-elfbin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar Sxvpf - ) 15 162) Run ldconfig to update the shared library pointers. 17 18 As root, type /sbin/ldconfig. This will update the links to 19the shared libraries included in the distribution. You can then remove 20the old versions of the libraries from /lib. 21 223) Remove any pre-formatted man pages. 23 24 Some distributions will have pre-formatted manual pages which 25will always be displayed in preference to newer man pages in /usr/man. 26If this is the case, you may need to manually remove them in order to 27see the correct manual pages. The shell script in 28install-utils/remove_preformat_manpages may be helpful in doing so. 29 304) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct. 31 32 Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the 33fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump 34frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with 35this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing 36fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that 37fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in 38your /etc/fstab file look like this: 39 40/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 41 42you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this: 43 44/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 45 46 There is a script in install-utils/convfstab (donated by 47Michael Weller) that may help you correct your /etc/fstab file. 48 495) Cleanup files from the installation. 50 51 When you're done with the installation, you will probably want 52to remove /INSTALL (this file), /README, and /install-utils from your 53root directory 54