diff -ur e2fsimage-0.2.0.orig/src/main.c e2fsimage-0.2.0/src/main.c
--- e2fsimage-0.2.0.orig/src/main.c	2004-12-08 17:29:57 +0300
+++ e2fsimage-0.2.0/src/main.c	2004-12-08 17:32:30 +0300
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 	if(! (e2c.curr_path && e2fsfile)) usage (argv[0]);
 	
 	/* open and read the filesystem image */
-	ret = ext2fs_open (e2fsfile, EXT2_FLAG_RW, 1, 1024, unix_io_manager, &e2c.fs);
+	ret = ext2fs_open (e2fsfile, EXT2_FLAG_RW, 0, 0, unix_io_manager, &e2c.fs);
 	E2_ERR(ret, "Error opening filesystem: ", e2fsfile);
 
 	ext2fs_read_inode_bitmap(e2c.fs);
diff -ur e2fsimage-0.2.0.orig/src/mke2fs.c e2fsimage-0.2.0/src/mke2fs.c
--- e2fsimage-0.2.0.orig/src/mke2fs.c	2004-03-01 23:12:30 +0300
+++ e2fsimage-0.2.0/src/mke2fs.c	2004-12-08 17:51:54 +0300
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@
 		if (fd) dup2(fd, 1);
 		setenv("PATH", buf, 1);	
 		
-		execlp("mkfs.ext2", "mkfs.ext2", "-F", fname, NULL);
-		execlp("mke2fs", "mke2fs", "-F", fname, NULL);
+		execlp("mkfs.ext2", "mkfs.ext2", "-F", fname, "-b", "1024", NULL);
+		execlp("mke2fs", "mke2fs", "-F", fname,  "-b", "1024", NULL);
 		fprintf(stderr,"Could not execute 'mkfs.ext2' or 'mke2fs'\n");
 	}
 	waitpid(pid, &status, 0);