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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>The e2fsprogs package contains the badblocks, chattr, debugfs,
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| 5 | dumpe2fs, e2fsck, e2label, fsck, fsck.ext2, lsattr, mke2fs,
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| 6 | mkfs.ext2, mklost+found, tune2fs and uuidgen programs.</para>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | </sect2>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 11 |
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| 12 | <sect3><title>badblocks</title>
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| 13 | <para>badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device (usually a disk
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| 14 | partition).</para></sect3>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect3><title>chattr</title>
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| 17 | <para>chattr changes the file attributes on a Linux second extended file
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| 18 | system. </para></sect3>
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| 19 |
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| 20 | <sect3><title>debugfs</title>
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| 21 | <para>The debugfs program is a file system debugger. It can be used to examine
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| 22 | and change the state of an ext2 file system.</para></sect3>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <sect3><title>dumpe2fs</title>
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| 25 | <para>dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the
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| 26 | filesystem present on a specified device.</para></sect3>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <sect3><title>e2fsck and fsck.ext2</title>
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| 29 | <para>e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file system. fsck.ext2
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| 30 | does the same as e2fsck.</para></sect3>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>e2label</title>
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| 33 | <para>e2label will display or change the filesystem label on the ext2
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| 34 | filesystem located on the specified device.</para></sect3>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <sect3><title>fsck</title>
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| 37 | <para>fsck is used to check and optionally repair a Linux
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| 38 | file system.</para></sect3>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <sect3><title>lsattr</title>
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| 41 | <para>lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended
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| 42 | file system.</para></sect3>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <sect3><title>mke2fs and mkfs.ext2</title>
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| 45 | <para>mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device
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| 46 | (usually a disk partition). mkfs.ext2 does the same as mke2fs.</para></sect3>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <sect3><title>mklost+found</title>
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| 49 | <para>mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current
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| 50 | working directory on a Linux second extended file system. mklost+found
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| 51 | pre-allocates disk blocks to the directory to make it
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| 52 | usable by e2fsck.</para></sect3>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <sect3><title>tune2fs</title>
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| 55 | <para>tune2fs adjusts tunable filesystem parameters on a Linux second extended
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| 56 | filesystem.</para></sect3>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <sect3><title>uuidgen</title>
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| 59 | <para>The uuidgen program creates a new universally unique identifier (UUID)
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| 60 | using the libuuid library. The new UUID can reasonably be considered unique
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| 61 | among all UUIDs created on the local system, and among UUIDs created on other
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| 62 | systems in the past and in the future.</para></sect3>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect2>
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| 65 |
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