Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > e2fsprogs

\"The e2fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating,checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in secondextended (ext2) filesystems. E2fsprogs contains e2fsck (used to repairfilesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown), mke2fs (used toinitialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem), debugfs(used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manuallyrepair a corrupted filesystem or to create test cases for e2fsck), etc.\"