Re: e2fsck and fsck.ext2
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:05:55PM -0400, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
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> What is the difference between e2fsck and fsck.ext2?
> I'm about to try (one of) them without a net...
The name. There seems to be a tradition to have fsck.fstype (fsck.ext2,
fsck.minix, ...) that is called by fsck. Why e2fsck exists separately I
don't know.
note that this is analogous to mke2fs and mkfs.ext2.
In both cases the two alternatives are actually hardlinked to the same file.
Frank
> I didn't see any comparisons when I Googled, except
> maybe e2fsck can handle the situation where you have
> to specify an alternate superblock and (perhaps)
> fsck.ext2 can't.
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