Commit a2659bd1 authored by Adrian Bunk's avatar Adrian Bunk Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove outdated ext2 help text parts

The patch below solves Bugzilla #3014 by removing much outdated information
from the ext2 help text.

The help text is now very short, but few correct information is better than
outdated information - and if you think it's too short, feel free to send a
patch that adds more current information.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 7636752a
...@@ -7,47 +7,14 @@ menu "File systems" ...@@ -7,47 +7,14 @@ menu "File systems"
config EXT2_FS config EXT2_FS
tristate "Second extended fs support" tristate "Second extended fs support"
help help
This is the de facto standard Linux file system (method to organize Ext2 is a standard Linux file system for hard disks.
files on a storage device) for hard disks.
You want to say Y here, unless you intend to use Linux exclusively
from inside a DOS partition using the UMSDOS file system. The
advantage of the latter is that you can get away without
repartitioning your hard drive (which often implies backing
everything up and restoring afterwards); the disadvantage is that
Linux becomes susceptible to DOS viruses and that UMSDOS is somewhat
slower than ext2fs. Even if you want to run Linux in this fashion,
it might be a good idea to have ext2fs around: it enables you to
read more floppy disks and facilitates the transition to a *real*
Linux partition later. Another (rare) case which doesn't require
ext2fs is a diskless Linux box which mounts all files over the
network using NFS (in this case it's sufficient to say Y to "NFS
file system support" below). Saying Y here will enlarge your kernel
by about 44 KB.
The Ext2fs-Undeletion mini-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, gives information about
how to retrieve deleted files on ext2fs file systems.
To change the behavior of ext2 file systems, you can use the tune2fs
utility ("man tune2fs"). To modify attributes of files and
directories on ext2 file systems, use chattr ("man chattr").
Ext2fs partitions can be read from within DOS using the ext2tool
command line tool package (available from
<ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/>) and from
within Windows NT using the ext2nt command line tool package from
<ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/dos/>. Explore2fs is a
graphical explorer for ext2fs partitions which runs on Windows 95
and Windows NT and includes experimental write support; it is
available from
<http://jnewbigin-pc.it.swin.edu.au/Linux/Explore2fs.htm>.
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system module will be called ext2. Be aware however that the file system
of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot of your root partition (the one containing the directory /) cannot
be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous. Most be compiled as a module, and so this could be dangerous.
everyone wants to say Y here.
If unsure, say Y.
config EXT2_FS_XATTR config EXT2_FS_XATTR
bool "Ext2 extended attributes" bool "Ext2 extended attributes"
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