diff --git a/tools/ext2fs/patches/01-remove_getline.patch b/tools/ext2fs/patches/01-remove_getline.patch
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index 00000000000..d09404c0c50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/ext2fs/patches/01-remove_getline.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+diff -urN genext2fs-1.4rc1/genext2fs.c genext2fs-1.4rc1.new/genext2fs.c
+--- genext2fs-1.4rc1/genext2fs.c	2005-05-17 18:29:10.000000000 +0200
++++ genext2fs-1.4rc1.new/genext2fs.c	2007-01-03 15:21:16.000000000 +0100
+@@ -243,48 +243,6 @@
+ }
+ #endif // defined SNPRINTF_STORAGE_CLASS
+ 
+-#if defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__GNUC__)
+-// getline() replacement for Darwin, might work on other systems
+-// written according to the getline man page included with Debian Linux
+-ssize_t 
+-getline(char **lineptr, size_t *n, FILE *stream)
+-{
+-	char *buf = *lineptr;	// could be NULL, in which case we allocate
+-	size_t bufsize = *n;	// current buffer size, adjust if we (re)alloc
+-	
+-	char *temp = NULL;
+-	size_t tempsize = 0;
+-	
+-	// temp is not a C string and we don't own the buffer it points into
+-	// must copy into a malloced buffer and NULL terminate
+-	temp = fgetln(stream, &tempsize);
+-	if(!temp) return -1;
+-	
+-	tempsize++; // adjust for NULL terminator
+-	if(buf) {
+-		// check if we have to reallocate
+-		if(bufsize < tempsize) {
+-			bufsize = tempsize;
+-			buf = (char*)realloc(buf, tempsize);
+-			if(!buf) return -1;
+-		}
+-	} else {
+-		bufsize = tempsize;
+-		buf = (char*)malloc(bufsize);
+-		if(!buf) return -1;
+-	}
+-	
+-	memcpy(buf, temp, tempsize-1);
+-	buf[tempsize-1] = '\0';
+-	
+-	// give new pointer and size back, nondestructive if we didn't change anything..
+-	*n = bufsize;
+-	*lineptr = buf;
+-	
+-	return (ssize_t)(tempsize-1);	// don't include the NULL terminator, per getline man page
+-}
+-#endif
+-
+ // Convert a numerical string to a float, and multiply the result by an
+ // SI-style multiplier if provided; supported multipliers are Ki, Mi, Gi, k, M
+ // and G.