Rescue disks fail themselves, etc... I guess I'm of the two belts,
two suspenders, and still double check everything school of system
management. Dynamic linking is all well and good for large user-mode
programs, but stuff that's critical for booting should be as
absolutely bullet-proof as possible.
With e2fsprogs 1.02, I believe it's built statically by default:
kelewan:~> ldd /sbin/e2fsck
statically linked