On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:05:55PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > > > What is the difference between e2fsck and fsck.ext2? > I'm about to try (one of) them without a net...
The name. There seems to be a tradition to have fsck.fstype (fsck.ext2, fsck.minix, ...) that is called by fsck. Why e2fsck exists separately I don't know. note that this is analogous to mke2fs and mkfs.ext2. In both cases the two alternatives are actually hardlinked to the same file. Frank > I didn't see any comparisons when I Googled, except > maybe e2fsck can handle the situation where you have > to specify an alternate superblock and (perhaps) > fsck.ext2 can't. > > Please copy me at this address on the reply. My > subscribed email account is also broken :-( > > -- > bjb > brenda dot butler at zarlink dot com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
