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.TH E2TOOLS 7 "March 2, 2005"
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.SH NAME
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e2tools \- utilities to manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and
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manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem. These utilities access a
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filesystem directly using the ext2fs library. I wrote these tools in order
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to copy files into a linux filesystem on a machine that does not have ext2
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support. Of course, they can also be used on a linux machine to read/write
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to disk images or floppies without having to mount them or have root
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access.
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.PP
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Supported functionality:
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.TP
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.B e2cp
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copy files
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.TP
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.B e2mv
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move files
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.TP
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.B e2rm
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remove files
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.B e2mkdir
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create directory
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.B e2ln
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create hard links
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.B e2ls
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list files/directories
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.B e2tail
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output the last part of a file
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In general, to specify a directory or file on an ext2 filesystem for the
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e2tools utilities, use the following form:
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filesystem:directory_path
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The filesystem can be an unmounted partition or a regular file that's been
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formatted to contain an ext2 filesystem. In general, if a command takes
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multiple file names on the command line, if the first one contains an ext2
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file specification, the rest of the files are assumed to be on the same
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filesystem until another one is explicitly stated:
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/tmp/boot.img:/tmp/file1
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/tmp/file2
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/tmp/file3
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/tmp/boot2.img:/tmp/file4
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Files 1-3 are on /tmp/boot.img and the last file is on /tmp/boot2.img
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR e2cp (1),
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.BR e2ln (1),
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.BR e2ls (1),
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.BR e2mkdir (1),
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.BR e2mv (1),
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.BR e2rm (1),
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.BR e2tail (1).
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.SH AUTHOR
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The \fBe2tools\fP were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
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This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>,
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for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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