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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?
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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 has it been replaced by something else ?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.