Re: FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 10:06:30PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: [...] > All my installations that use a separate filesystem for /boot/ use EXT2. It > still > works as good as ever for such an infrequent use environment, with no way to > get > ahead of Grub evolution. :) There are more reasons for

Re: FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Felix Miata
Cindy Sue Causey composed on 2023-02-19 15:30 (UTC-0500): > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> Hi.. This is just regurgitating something related to my coincidentally >> referencing several years of GRUB non-boots yesterday. The latest on >> this Linux From Scratch thread came into my inbox this morning,

Re: FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
resh upgrade to testing. I've just installed several machines with it (and spent a bunch of time testing it last night) The ext4 problem there has been fixed now, for example, and was down to a new version of e2fsprogs All the very best, sa ever, Andy Cater > However this works out, thank you, Developers! > > Cindy :) > -- > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > * gettin' giddy about the next new unstable! * >

Re: FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Found a brand new 2023.02.15 Debian bugs reference for this.. On 2/19/23, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Hi.. This is just regurgitating something related to my coincidentally > referencing several years of GRUB non-boots yesterday. The latest on > this Linux From Scratch thread came into my inbox th

FYI: LFS Thread On GRUB non-boots, e2fsprogs, & mke2fs

2023-02-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Hi.. This is just regurgitating something related to my coincidentally referencing several years of GRUB non-boots yesterday. The latest on this Linux From Scratch thread came into my inbox this morning, and it just sounds like it might help some Users having booting problems similar to what I've e

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-28 Thread Martin T
definitely needed for operation like this? regards, martin Kuupäeval 28. märts 2012 13:49 kirjutas Stefan Monnier : >> thanks for replies! Is it possible to "slide" partition using the >> tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? > > The e2fsprogs tools only deal wi

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> thanks for replies! Is it possible to "slide" partition using the > tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? The e2fsprogs tools only deal with the needs specific to ext[234] partitions. Sliding a partition can be done for any partition you like with `dd'.

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Martin T
Jochen, Darac: thanks for replies! Is it possible to "slide" partition using the tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? Or is the GNU Parted only option here if I want to make changes over CLI? regards, martin Kuupäeval 26. märts 2012 17:28 kirjutas Darac Marjal : > O

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:50:27PM +, Martin T wrote: > I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem: > [cut] > > Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning? > If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the end of the > partition? Not directly. T

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Martin T: > > Is it possible to make partition smaller starting from the beginning? No. > If yes, do I need to somehow start file system from the end of the > partition? AFAIK that's not possible. The solution for your problem (which involves initial reformatting) is LVM. J. -- There is no ju

shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-25 Thread Martin T
I have a 500GB((131072000*4096)/1024^3) ext3 filesystem: root@debian:~#dumpe2fs /dev/sda9 | egrep "Block count|Block size" dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) Block count: 131072000 Block size: 4096 root@debian:~# ..on a 904GB((1953523711-56924160)*512)/(1024^3) partition(sd

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. >> >> >> On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >>

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. > > > On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >>> using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is th

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >> using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to >> your chroot tip. > > It

Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by > using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to > your chroot tip. It looks like you have gotten Wheezy live to work. I have not been able to. What I have tried

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Joar Jegleim
. regards Joar Jegleim On 2 January 2012 21:12, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: >> >>> anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze >>> ? >>> […] >>> Has anybody

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/01/12 07:12, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: >> >>> anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze >>> ? >>> […] >>> Has anybody tried this, or g

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Camaleón: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: > >> anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze >> ? >> […] >> Has anybody tried this, or got any hints ? > > No hints, sorry. Sounds like a dangerous moveme

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: > anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze > ? It's tagged as an "essential" package. I would keep my paws out of it :-) > I really need +16TB partition support which was added in e

Re: e2fsprogs compilation problem

2009-01-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to compile the latest version of e2fsprogs. I have the next > error during compilation: > > make[2]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/e2fsprogs/build/lib/ext2fs' > CC ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c > ../../../

e2fsprogs compilation problem

2009-01-19 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hello, I am trying to compile the latest version of e2fsprogs. I have the next error during compilation: make[2]: se ingresa al directorio `/usr/src/e2fsprogs/build/lib/ext2fs' CC ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c ../../../lib/ext2fs/alloc_tables.c: In function ‘ext2fs_allocate_group_

Re: Problem apt-get install ssh - Could not early remove e2fsprogs

2008-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,29.Oct.08, 23:47:18, Fu-Tung Cheng wrote: > Hi Celejar, > > Thank you for the reply. > > # more /etc/debian_version > 3.1 > > How do you typically go about doing a full upgrade. I know one of the Read the release notes[1], they were written for this exact purpose. [1] http://www.debia

Re: Problem apt-get install ssh - Could not early remove e2fsprogs

2008-10-30 Thread Fu-Tung Cheng
Hi Celejar, Thank you for the reply. # more /etc/debian_version 3.1 How do you typically go about doing a full upgrade. I know one of the previous posters said that sarge was being archived and might not be available for a while. Thank you, Fu-Tung --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Celejar <[EMAIL PR

Re: Problem apt-get install ssh - Could not early remove e2fsprogs

2008-10-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-28 18:17 +0100, Fu-Tung Cheng wrote: > # apt-get install ssh > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > coreutils cramfsprogs dash debianutils e2fslibs e2fsprogs initrd-tools > initscript

Re: Problem apt-get install ssh - Could not early remove e2fsprogs

2008-10-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
ng the > essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This > is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the > APT::Force-LoopBreak option. > E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs This should NOT happen. How did you install this system, [what De

Problem apt-get install ssh - Could not early remove e2fsprogs

2008-10-28 Thread Fu-Tung Cheng
debianutils e2fslibs e2fsprogs initrd-tools initscripts libacl1 libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libc6-dev libcomerr2 libdevmapper1.02 libedit2 libkrb53 libncurses5 libpam0g libselinux1 libsepol1 libss2 libssl0.9.8 libuuid1 lsb-base mktemp mount openssh-blacklist openssh-client openssh-server sysv-rc

Re: problems with e2fsprogs - conflicts/pre-depeds loop

2005-11-14 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Raj Kombiyil wrote: > Fellow uber-debianers, > I have a problem with e2fsprogs. (Trying to install uni2ascii for > example, which depends on e2fsprogs) > My environment: Debian gnu/linux testing/unstable, Kernel version > 2.4.27(home brewed), libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22, sysvinit 2.84

problems with e2fsprogs - conflicts/pre-depeds loop

2005-11-13 Thread Raj Kombiyil
Fellow uber-debianers,I have a problem with e2fsprogs. (Trying to install uni2ascii for example, which depends on e2fsprogs) My environment: Debian gnu/linux testing/unstable, Kernel version 2.4.27(home brewed), libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22, sysvinit 2.84-2woody1 my sources.list = #security deb

e2fsprogs problem

2005-11-07 Thread kangja
i use 'testing' but occasionally installed packages fr sid or unstable. now when i do 'apt-get install, i have the following error : > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the > essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This >

udev + linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 solved: needs a newer e2fsprogs to build its initrd.

2005-08-22 Thread Tony Godshall
drive. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324550 Anyhow, I eventually discovered that linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 needs a newer e2fsprogs to build its initrd. So I upgraded to the latest e2fsprogs (1.38-1.1), and linux-image was happy and I rebooted and got my USB drive back. So thi

problem with e2fsprogs

1999-12-06 Thread F . Roccato
Hi all, i'm trying to configure a scsi disk: I have 3 primary partitions the command mke2fs /dev/sdb1 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb2 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb3 don't. Here the output: mke2fs /dev/sdb3 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 mke2fs: Device not configured while t

e2fsprogs require "--force" under hamm?

1998-12-22 Thread Jameson Burt
. All generally works well except for installing the package e2fsprogs, a required package in the hamm base packages. I get conflicts with the package e2fslibsg and especially with the package e2fsprogsg, two formerly essential packages. But "dpkg --purge" of e2fslibsg/e2fsprogsg fails, a

Re: Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
2 file system utilities. > [...] > I don't want to "--force" this, but I don't see any other way. Any > suggestions would be appreciated. You probably have to use --force this time. Neither of e2fslibsg or e2fsprogsg do exist now in hamm. e2fsprogs is now the only pack

Beta Test and e2fsprogs

1998-07-23 Thread Paul Serice
ollowing: dpkg: considering removing e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs ... dpkg: yes, will remove e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs. dpkg: regarding e2fsprogs_1.10-17.deb containing e2fsprogs: e2fsprogsg conflicts with e2fsprogs e2fsprogs (version 1.10-17) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing e2fspr

Re: URGENT e2fsprogs problem

1998-06-16 Thread David Z. Maze
G Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GK> I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an GK> newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this GK> package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? Running 'dpkg -s e2fsprogs' shows that e2fs

URGENT e2fsprogs problem

1998-06-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill Co

Installing hamm: e2fsprogs conflict with e2fslibsg

1998-05-06 Thread Julián García Cardona
went back to "Select", got inside there with the idea of leaving immediately, with nothing changed, and at trying to do so I was warned that e2fsprogs conflict with e2fslibsg; however, both were required! Leaving it to do at will, e2fslibsg got (appar

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > The latter First force the removal of e2fsprogs (IIRC > --force-remove-essential) and then install e2fslibsg. You need a > package named comerr2g too. No. comerr2g and e2fslibsg are obsolete and should be rem

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-03 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing > > > that, it won't install beca

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing > > that, it won't install because of a conflict with e2fsprogs. The packages > > file says it confli

Re: conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-03 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing > that, it won't install because of a conflict with e2fsprogs. The packages > file says it conflicts with e2fsprogs <= 1.10-7. but I have 1.10-15 > ins

Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm) | APT

1998-05-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade', and apt went ahead and removed e2fslibsg > in > favour of e2fsprogs without any messages or warnings. So now I have no > e2fslibsg, but everything seems to be fine, what will happen

Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm) | APT

1998-05-02 Thread hospedales
I did an 'apt-get upgrade', and apt went ahead and removed e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs without any messages or warnings. So now I have no e2fslibsg, but everything seems to be fine, what will happen if I have to reboot? Thanks, Timothy PS, for the developers: apt-get

conflicting hamm packages: mc, e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
midnight commander now requires e2fsligsg, but when I tried installing that, it won't install because of a conflict with e2fsprogs. The packages file says it conflicts with e2fsprogs <= 1.10-7. but I have 1.10-15 installed. e2fsprogs says it conflicts with e2fslibsg (no version list

Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm)

1998-05-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dselect won't install e2fslibsg because of a conflict with > e2fsprogs, but it won't remove e2fsprogs because it is an essential > package. How do I resolve this dilemma? I did it using the --force-remove-essential flag to d

e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm)

1998-04-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
Dselect won't install e2fslibsg because of a conflict with e2fsprogs, but it won't remove e2fsprogs because it is an essential package. How do I resolve this dilemma? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL

e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs conflict

1998-04-24 Thread Paul Miller
Dselect is having a fit about e2fslibsg and e2fsprogs conflicting. It is happy with just installing e2fslibsg, but when I install e2fsprogs, quota and mc complain -- even though e2fsprogs provides e2fslibsg. I need e2fsprogs for obvious reasons -- fsck, etc.. Currently I have e2fslibsg

Re: e2fsprogs

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Clark
Bob Hilliard wrote: > > I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the > same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version! > > bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 > 86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56 > /sbin/mkfs

e2fsprogs

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs 1.10-11, and no they ARE the same file. Sorry to bother you about a non-current version! bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2 86036 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2* bob:vc-2:bob>ls -li /sbin/mke2fs 86036 -rwx

Re: e2fsprogs (Was: Unidentified subject!)

1998-03-03 Thread Bob Hilliard
root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2 I have e2fsprogs 1.10-10 on my hamm system. What version do you have installed? -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Is e2fsprogs OK now?

1998-01-14 Thread Paul Rightley
A while back there was a warning regarding the hamm version of the e2fsprogs package - e2fsprogs_1.10-4.deb I believe. I now have e2fsprogs_1.10-10.deb installed and have had a few weird problems at home with a partition greater than 2GB in size. Is there a known problem with this package

Re: e2fsprogs

1997-12-06 Thread Igor Grobman
> > Hi, > > How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I > tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go > about upgrading ? You should install e2fsprogsg. This name change is a bug in itself (appending g is for the

e2fsprogs

1997-12-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go about upgrading ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill