-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-6496 2012-04-24 03:11:05 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : e2fsprogs Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.42 Release : 4.fc17 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Added /etc/e2fsck.conf with "broken_system_clock=1" config so that e2fsck won't stop boot simply because the clock is wrong.
initrd/initramfs tools will need to include this new file as well, however, before the bug is fully resolved.
Short term, users can instruct dracut to include the new file in the initramfs with:
dracut -f --install /etc/e2fsck.conf
dracut has a release to do this automatically, soon to follow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #748920 - Setting back time breaks boot https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748920 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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