This software is compiled for use with glibc-2.0.5 You have first to install the library package! Installation hints: None. Here is the last note of INSTALL: 9) Make sure your /etc/fstab file is correct. Some distributions install an /etc/fstab which is missing the fifth and sixth field of filesystem entry, which are the dump frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively. The problem with this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that fsck should not check that particular filesystem. If your entries in your /etc/fstab file look liks this: /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults you should add "1 1" at the end of each line, so that they look like this: /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1 Contents of the e2fsprogs-1.10.tar TAR-Archive: lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:27 lib/libcom_err.so.2 -> libcom_err.so.2.0 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 6403 1997-11-20 00:27 lib/libcom_err.so.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libe2p.so.2 -> libe2p.so.2.3 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 14187 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libe2p.so.2.3 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libext2fs.so.2 -> libext2fs.so.2.3 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 67216 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libext2fs.so.2.3 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libss.so.2 -> libss.so.2.0 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 18935 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libss.so.2.0 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libuuid.so.1 -> libuuid.so.1.1 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 8067 1997-11-20 00:28 lib/libuuid.so.1.1 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 8260 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/badblocks -rwxr-xr-x root/root 6528 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/dumpe2fs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 214464 1997-11-20 00:26 sbin/e2fsck -rwxr-xr-x root/root 3156 1997-11-20 00:26 sbin/flushb -rwxr-xr-x root/root 8908 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/fsck -rwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:26 sbin/fsck.ext2 link to sbin/e2fsck -rwxr-xr-x root/root 16764 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/mke2fs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/mkfs.ext2 link to sbin/mke2fs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 8816 1997-11-20 00:27 sbin/tune2fs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 6996 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/bin/chattr -rwxr-xr-x root/root 5772 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/bin/lsattr -rw-r--r-- root/root 45579 1997-11-20 00:29 usr/info/libext2fs.info lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/lib/libcom_err.so -> /mnt/tmp/lib/libcom_err.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 usr/lib/libe2p.so -> /mnt/tmp/lib/libe2p.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 usr/lib/libext2fs.so -> /mnt/tmp/lib/libext2fs.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 usr/lib/libss.so -> /mnt/tmp/lib/libss.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1997-11-20 00:28 usr/lib/libuuid.so -> /mnt/tmp/lib/libuuid.so.1 -rw-r--r-- root/root 2719 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man1/chattr.1 -rw-r--r-- root/root 859 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man1/lsattr.1 -rw-r--r-- root/root 1495 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/badblocks.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 5783 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/debugfs.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 1065 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/dumpe2fs.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 4966 1997-11-20 00:26 usr/man/man8/e2fsck.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 5099 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/fsck.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 4185 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/mke2fs.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 945 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/mklost+found.8 -rw-r--r-- root/root 3392 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/man/man8/tune2fs.8 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 31712 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/sbin/debugfs -rwxr-xr-x root/root 3960 1997-11-20 00:27 usr/sbin/mklost+found