On 11/17/22 21:30, Philip Webb wrote:
I need to rewrite the filesystem on a USB stick after it got damaged.
My notes tell me to use 'mke2fs', but 'which' doesn't find it :
has it been replaced by something else ?
I have 'e2fsprogs' installed, but there's no 'man' file for it
& it doesn't seem to create filesystems.
There is a utility 'sys-fs/genext2fs', which I emerged & looked at,
but it's not clear whether it does the simple job I need.
Can anyone advise ?
You have the right package, mke2fs is inside it:
$ equery f sys-fs/e2fsprogs ... /sbin/mke2fs /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -> mke2fs
/sbin/mkfs.ext3 -> mke2fs /sbin/mkfs.ext4 -> mke2fs
Here man page is installed
$ man mke2fs
And which/whereis also:
$ which mke2fs
/sbin/mke2fs
$ whereis mke2fs
mke2fs: /sbin/mke2fs /usr/share/man/man8/mke2fs.8.bz2
