gfs2-utils

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This package contains the tools needed to create, check, manipulate and analyze

gfs2 filesystems, along with important scripts required to support gfs2

clusters.

Build instructions

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The following development packages are required to build gfs2-utils:

 o autoconf

 o automake

 o libtool

 o GNU make

 o ncurses

 o gettext

 o bison

 o flex

 o zlib

 o libblkid

 o libuuid

 o check (optional, enables unit tests)

The kernel header include/linux/gfs2-ondisk.h and its dependencies are also

required.

To build gfs2-utils, run the following commands:

 $ ./autogen.sh

 $ ./configure

 $ make

See ./configure --help for more build configuration options.

Test Suite

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To run the test suite, use:

 $ make check

See doc/README.tests for more details regarding the test suite.

Installation

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gfs2-utils requires the following libraries:

 o zlib

 o ncurses

 o libblkid

 o libuuid

To install gfs2-utils, run:

 # make install

Support scripts

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The following scripts (located in gfs2/scripts) are used to complete

the userland portion of the gfs2 withdraw feature using uevents. They

will be installed by 'make install' to these directories by default:

  82-gfs2-withdraw.rules in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/

  gfs2_withdraw_helper   in /usr/sbin/

See also doc/README.contributing for details on submitting patches.