Reiserfsprogs

Revision as of 17:22, 3 July 2013

The tools to maintain a ReiserFS (Reiser v3) filesystem are called reiserfsprogs and should be shipped by most distributions. If it doesn't, we have to build it manually.

Install prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install uuid-dev            # Debian, Ubuntu
sudo yum install libuuid-devel           # Fedora
sudo zypper install libuuid-devel        # openSUSE

Get source:

wget https://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jeffm/reiserfsprogs/v3.6.23/reiserfsprogs-3.6.23.tar.{sign,xz}
xz -d reiserfsprogs*.tar.xz

gpg --recv-keys 2179E5B2
gpg --verify reiserfsprogs*.tar.sign

tar -xf reiserfsprogs*.tar
cd reiserfsprogs*

Build & install:

./configure --prefix=/opt/reiserfsprogs && make
sudo make install

Or, from the Git tree:

git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeffm/reiserfsprogs.git reiserfsprogs-git
cd reiserfsprogs-git
libtoolize --copy --install --force && aclocal && autoheader && autoconf && automake --add-missing

./configure --prefix=/opt/reiserfsprogs && make
sudo make install