Re: init bug / crash recovery

Robert L Krawitz (rlk@tiac.net)
Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:42:07 -0500


Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:28:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk>

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Alex Krimkevich wrote:
> Well, as it turns out no e2fsck (or any other fsck) exists on the root
> floppy. I mounted root partition on /mnt and tried '/mnt/sbin/e2fsck'.
> The system answered "/mnt/sbin/e2fsck not found". 'ls -l
> /mnt/sbin/e2fsck' produced:
> -rwxr-x--- 1 root bin 69252 Aug 8 1995 e2fsck*

It's looking for a shared libary, and can't find it.

Why on earth is something as critical as e2fsck dynamically linked, anyway?

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