From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:16:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f93d7e-6f85-4e49-24c7-4c0ccf62e02b@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y3aZ8QoGVE0wwreZ@ca.inter.net>
On 11/17/22 15:30, Philip Webb wrote:
> I need to rewrite the filesystem on a USB stick after it got damaged.
> My notes tell me to use 'mke2fs', but 'which' doesn't find it :
> has it been replaced by something else ?
> I have 'e2fsprogs' installed, but there's no 'man' file for it
> & it doesn't seem to create filesystems.
> There is a utility 'sys-fs/genext2fs', which I emerged & looked at,
> but it's not clear whether it does the simple job I need.
>
> Can anyone advise ?
On my system, /sbin/mke2fs is part of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-2.46.5-r3 with
the tools USE FLAG set.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-17 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-17 20:30 [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? Philip Webb
2022-11-17 20:40 ` ralfconn
2022-11-17 20:41 ` Arve Barsnes
2022-11-17 20:53 ` Matt Connell
2022-11-17 22:43 ` Ramon Fischer
2022-11-17 23:44 ` [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? -- solved Philip Webb
2022-11-17 21:16 ` Jack [this message]
2022-11-17 21:36 ` [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? Laurence Perkins
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