The e2fsprogs package contains filesystem utilities for use with ext2 filesystem. It contains utilities for creating, checking, modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in second extended or ex2 filesystems. The software also supports ext3 filesystem with journaling support. The latest version of this software is e2fsprogs 1.38, which contains a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous releases. .

The e2fsprogs consists of a number of ext2 filesystems such as,
· e2fsck – is used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown
· mke2fs – is used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext2 filesystem
· debugfs – is used to examine the internal structure of a filesystem, to manually repair a corrupted filesystem or to create test cases e2fsck
· tune2fs – is used to modify filesystem parameters

If you need to manage the performance of an ext2 filesystem you should install e2fsprogs package.

The e2fsprogs package is open source. The latest development sources for e2fsprogs is maintained in a Mercurial repository at http://thunk.org/hg/e2fsprogs.