From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-200020-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22180158020 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 853C3E096F; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk1-f170.google.com (mail-qk1-f170.google.com [209.85.222.170]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A9EBE0908 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qk1-f170.google.com with SMTP id z17so2148516qki.11 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:17:22 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:reply-to :content-language:references:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date :message-id:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=EPTVUKMupBR2QxeuTiYwEWk7Hp41OFp1it5zGPM00sE=; b=fd6xAItEkxB10yWQgD7SndIPSWKm9U4ghXo5dV8pTLmupvYdAAgKzAoZKzewGjV4dJ uXZAh0F48RevpiIglh6WwF2jA/gcM0Azpe/5Qz5/e7Y2bjkQy4kuJ9q9+bJ2ISNK1VFZ li079crQgc0QECO6j12RiUeNuPnr5lM+oHg4HOAVRv4GoLRFWefkD4GGJI4AlZojbIEV NPbAAg9V5lr1jwk1zI5LA73YYaLBAyg0g9GF2gOSYi6ZrnZtuyhzAgO79XmLsc2EF9Vh 7a9WSENH6Wun/sTt+e57VSUJfzZjFRI3bBZ5yADtEBa8E6nhqtL4DV7ccBwuhJiaAciU iZUQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ANoB5pkp7xiscEaAsp1jQsZTDq+xYGtQcdbPltF9br1xCQ9UCcyddfJc wmPEG9AtMkKXVtA463+gMHTCemsQZf25/w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA0mqf4Z9OzXBtRqrve/0RXt/huL6z3UO5MJzHn5tA8BVw/7/bHhcI7T+YhnkPYC88osM8NxGjj+jg== X-Received: by 2002:a37:9647:0:b0:6fa:2e16:b776 with SMTP id y68-20020a379647000000b006fa2e16b776mr3280218qkd.212.1668719841526; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:17:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.18] (c-73-238-129-126.hsd1.ma.comcast.net. [73.238.129.126]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id bs42-20020a05620a472a00b006b61b2cb1d2sm1160987qkb.46.2022.11.17.13.17.20 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:17:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19f93d7e-6f85-4e49-24c7-4c0ccf62e02b@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:16:18 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <Y3aZ8QoGVE0wwreZ@ca.inter.net> Content-Language: en-US-large From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <Y3aZ8QoGVE0wwreZ@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a804c232-3ede-4797-90ba-5f049b0706af X-Archives-Hash: 12d7832271c854e3529c36477b12627d 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.