rthille@gte.net writes:

>  I found the e2fsprogs package (e2fsprogs-1.19.tar.gz) for linux and
> built it (with one change, it was looking for the 'umount' system call,
> and I had to change it to 'unmount' in journal.c).

FWIW there is a NetBSD package for this already.  Should build cleanly,
if it doesn't please use send-pr to file a bug report.

Also you might want to look at my post from last year where I was trying
to create a bootable ext2fs filesystem.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2000/10/05/0000.html

Basically you need to provide some options or your filesystem won't be
bootable.

-Andrew