diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index d010790fa..36ca6f7a1 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -76,7 +76,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [manuel]: Amplied the Index entries for Hotplug
+<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - e2fsprogs, brought
+instructions inline with upstream recommendations.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [manuel]: Applied the Index entries for Hotplug
 and Linux-Libc-Headers. Tags corrections.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>June 18, 2004 [winkie]: Instead of using the udev binary, use
diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
index edbb99fbd..a26b496e3 100644
--- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ file system. It also supports the ext3 journaling file system.</para>
 <segmentedlist>
 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
-<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>48.4 MB</seg></seglistitem>
+<seglistitem><seg>0.6 SBU</seg><seg>4.9 MB</seg></seglistitem>
 </segmentedlist>
 
 <segmentedlist>
@@ -29,9 +29,15 @@ Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed, Texinfo</seg></seglistite
 <sect2 role="installation">
 <title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
 
+<para>It is recommended to build E2fsprogs in a subdirectory of the source tree:
+</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mkdir build
+cd build</userinput></screen>
+
 <para>Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
+<screen><userinput>../configure --prefix=/usr --with-root-prefix="" \
     --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
@@ -55,6 +61,16 @@ want.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>This creates
 the shared libraries which some programs in this package use.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--disable-evms</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This disables the building of the Enterprise Volume Management
+System (EVMS) plugin.  This plugin is not up-to-date with the latest EVMS
+internal interfaces and EVMS is not installed as part of a base LFS system, so
+the plugin is not required.  See the
+<ulink url="http://evms.sourceforge.net/">EVMS homepage</ulink> for more
+information regarding EVMS itself.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>