Fedora 13 Update: e2fsprogs-1.41.10-6.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-4656
2010-03-16 23:02:55
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Name        : e2fsprogs
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.41.10
Release     : 6.fc13
URL         : http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Utilities for managing ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems
Description :
The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,
checking, modifying, and correcting any inconsistencies in second,
third and fourth extended (ext2/ext3/ext4) filesystems. E2fsprogs
contains e2fsck (used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an
unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used to initialize a partition to contain
an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs (used to examine the internal
structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted
filesystem, or to create test cases for e2fsck), tune2fs (used to
modify filesystem parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs
filesystem utilities.

You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the
performance of an ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystem.

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Update Information:

e2fsprogs has new checking for unaligned partitions, which will lead to very bad
performance.  However, in an automated invocation such as anaconda, requiring a
y/n answer to proceed, or -F to override, is not wise.    So just drop the
question altogether, and leave it as simply a warning.  This matches what
ultimately went upstream.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #573643 - mke2fs fails when asked to create an ext4 filesystem on unaligned partitions ?
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573643
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update e2fsprogs' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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