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  • Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

    From ralfconn@21:1/5 to Philip Webb on Thu Nov 17 21:50:01 2022
    On 11/17/22 21:30, 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    has it been replaced by something else ?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 ?

    You have the right package, mke2fs is inside it:

    $ equery f sys-fs/e2fsprogs ... /sbin/mke2fs /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -> mke2fs /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -> mke2fs /sbin/mkfs.ext4 -> mke2fs

    Here man page is installed
    $ man mke2fs

    And which/whereis also:

    $ which mke2fs
    /sbin/mke2fs

    $ whereis mke2fs
    mke2fs: /sbin/mke2fs /usr/share/man/man8/mke2fs.8.bz2

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  • From Philip Webb@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 17 21:40:01 2022
    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    has it been replaced by something else ?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 ?

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  • From Arve Barsnes@21:1/5 to Philip Webb on Thu Nov 17 21:50:01 2022
    On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 at 21:30, Philip Webb <[email protected]> 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    has it been replaced by something else ?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.

    # equery b `which mke2fs`
    * Searching for /sbin/mke2fs ...
    sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.46.5-r4 (/sbin/mke2fs)

    Might it be hidden behind USE="tools"?

    Regards,
    Arve

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  • From Matt Connell@21:1/5 to Arve Barsnes on Thu Nov 17 22:00:02 2022
    On Thu, 2022-11-17 at 21:41 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote:
    Might it be hidden behind USE="tools"?

    This is correct.

    $ equery uses e2fsprogs
    ...
    + + tools : Build extfs tools (mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, etc.)

    Philip, make sure you have the 'tools' USE flag enabled for e2fsprogs
    and it should be available in /sbin/

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to Philip Webb on Thu Nov 17 22:20:01 2022
    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.

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