Theodore Ts'o

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Yeah, there are multiple bugs here, most of which are caused by the fact that rdump hasn't been updated since the days of ext2/ext3: 1) rdump only understands 16-bit uid's...

I consider this more a bug for busybox than e2scrub_all. It will be less work to fix busybox to support readlink -e than to workaround the failure of busybox to...

Nope, busybox's realpath is not a complete replacement of readlink -q -s -e. On what distribution are we trying to have the insane combination of (a) busybox and (b) trying...

Send me a patch and I'll consider it. I'm quite sure that a patch to fix busybox so it supports readlink -e is going to be **much** easier.

Buildroot is building X.org. So why the ***heck*** are you trying to make e2scrub_all work with busybox? What is your use case where you are insisting on using busybox and...

readlink -e will not return any text if the symlink points to a non-existent file: % ln -s this-does-not-exist test-file % readlink -e test-file % readlink test-file this-does-not-exist In answer...

> > readlink -e will not return any text if the symlink points to a non-existent file > > But we don't care about text at all, only exit code...

e2fsdroids has dependencies on some external libraries such as libsparse. Those libraries are not available from all distributions. Creating a Makefile.in so it could be integrated into the standard Linux...

The spec file that's included in the e2fsprogs sources is terribly obsolete. Sorry about that. I package e2fsprogs for Debian, so the Debian packaging is very up to date. Unfortunately,...

"git clone" works for me: % git clone git://git.whamcloud.com/tools/e2fsprogs.git /tmp/e2fsprogs Cloning into '/tmp/e2fsprogs'... remote: Counting objects: 56324, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10627/10627), done. remote: Total 56324 (delta 45786), reused...