On 7/12/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:41:02PM +0200, Lieven De Keyzer wrote: > > Is fsck also used for ReiserFS filesystems? > > From memory, in the early days of reiser3 some of the distros > symlinked fsck.reiserfs to /bin/true but I thought that more recent > versions of reiser3 included a working fsck. > > From man 8 fsck: > In actuality, fsck is simply a front-end for the various file > system checkers (fsck.fstype) available under Linux. The file > system-specific checker is searched for in /sbin first, then in > /etc/fs and /etc, and finally in the directories listed in the > PATH environment variable. Please see the file system-specific > checker manual pages for further details.
So, since LFS does not contain a package that installs reiserfsck, would it really be that strange to not install e2fsprogs ? (except for the fact that other applications might need the library, as already pointed out by Dan) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
