Information about the package, e2fsprogs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The e2fsprogs package is designed for, Utilities for managing ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.
Package Name:
e2fsprogs
Summary:
Utilities for managing ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems
Description:
The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second, third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities. You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.41.12
Release:
23.el6
Size:
1.9 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the e2fsprogs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install e2fsprogs
This command will install e2fsprogs on the server.
yum remove e2fsprogs
This command will un-install e2fsprogs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove e2fsprogs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove e2fsprogs
This command will un-install e2fsprogs on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove e2fsprogs when using the -y flag.
yum update e2fsprogs
This command will update e2fsprogs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove e2fsprogs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update e2fsprogs
This command will update e2fsprogs to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove e2fsprogs when using the -y flag.
yum info e2fsprogs
This command will show you core information about the e2fsprogs package.
yum deplist e2fsprogs
This command will show you the dependencies for e2fsprogs. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update e2fsprogs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on e2fsprogs. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.