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Release 1.18 of e2fsprogs is available!

On November 10, 1999, version 1.18 of e2fsprogs was announced.

Ext2fs Utilities

• e2fsprogs, which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities.
• dump, which will allow you to make backups of your ext2 filesystems. It uses a format which is compatible with the BSD dump and restore programs.
• defrag, which will defragment your ext2 filesystem
• ext2ed, which is a text/windows interface for examining and editing an ext2 filesystem. It's a little bit easier to use than debugfs, although debugfs is a more powerful.
• MountX, MacOS driver which allows you to mount ext2 filesystems (Linux and MkLinux) on the Macintosh.

Papers and Documentation of the Ext2 Filesystem

• Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem

Other useful links related to the ext2 filesystem

• Ext2 compression --- Peter Moulder and Riley Williams maintain and develop the e2compression patches. (Which are almost, but not quite ready for prime-time).
• FSDEXT2 --- A (read-only) ext2 filesystem driver for Windows 95, implemented as Windows 95 File System Driver (FSD). This driver is maintained by Peter van Sebille (pese@nlnwgfsc.origin.nl).
• Large File Support API

Other Linux filesystem development efforts

• CODA, a distributed filesystem like AFS
• Reiserfs
• dtfs, a log-structed filesystem under development
• Another LFS filesystem under development.
• The Global File System (GFS)