The ext2fsprogs package contains essential ext2 filesystem utilities which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other core ext2 filesystem utilities.
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This release fixes blkid's test programs, an ia64 core dump, the
com_err library, messages, Mke2fs and badblocks, and a portability
problem in the filefrag program. Mke2fs will now use a larger journal
by default for filesystems greater than 4GB. Mke2fs will refuse to
create filesystems greater than 2**31-1 blocks, unless forced. The blkid
program has a new option,
