Re: Unidentified subject!

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

Well on my hamm system they ARE the same file (hard link):

bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mke2fs
  19716 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root  root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mke2fs
bash-2.01$ ls -li /sbin/mkfs.ext2
  19716 -rwxr-xr-x   2 root  root 17116 Jan 29 12:56 /sbin/mkfs.ext2



Bob Hilliard wrote:
> 
>      I have assumed that mkfs.ext2 and mke2fs were links to the same
> file.  Apparently they are not:
> 
> bob:vc-3:bob>ls -il /sbin/mkfs.ext2
>   86256 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17116 Jan  7 21:10 /sbin/mkfs.ext2*
> bob:vc-3:bob>ls -il /sbin/mke2fs
>   86255 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17116 Jan  7 21:10 /sbin/mke2fs*
> 
>      I believe they are the same file, and should have been installed
> as links, either hard or symbolic.  Is this a bug against e2fsprogs?
> The mkfs.ext2 man page _is_ a symlink to the mke2fs man page.

-- 
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-bill
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