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| author | Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de> | 2007-12-17 15:49:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de> | 2007-12-17 15:50:03 +0100 |
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Add man pages (courtesy of Lucas Wall at Debian)
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diff --git a/e2tools.7 b/e2tools.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4bb9f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/e2tools.7 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.TH E2TOOLS 7 "March 2, 2005" +.\" +.SH NAME +e2tools \- utilities to manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem +.\" +.SH DESCRIPTION +E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and +manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem. These utilities access a +filesystem directly using the ext2fs library. I wrote these tools in order +to copy files into a linux filesystem on a machine that does not have ext2 +support. Of course, they can also be used on a linux machine to read/write +to disk images or floppies without having to mount them or have root +access. +.PP +Supported functionality: +.TP +.B e2cp +copy files +.TP +.B e2mv +move files +.TP +.B e2rm +remove files +.TP +.B e2mkdir +create directory +.TP +.B e2ln +create hard links +.TP +.B e2ls +list files/directories +.TP +.B e2tail +output the last part of a file +.PP +In general, to specify a directory or file on an ext2 filesystem for the +e2tools utilities, use the following form: +.IP +filesystem:directory_path +.PP +The filesystem can be an unmounted partition or a regular file that's been +formatted to contain an ext2 filesystem. In general, if a command takes +multiple file names on the command line, if the first one contains an ext2 +file specification, the rest of the files are assumed to be on the same +filesystem until another one is explicitly stated: +.IP +/tmp/boot.img:/tmp/file1 +.IP +/tmp/file2 +.IP +/tmp/file3 +.IP +/tmp/boot2.img:/tmp/file4 +.PP +Files 1-3 are on /tmp/boot.img and the last file is on /tmp/boot2.img +.\" +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR e2cp (1), +.BR e2ln (1), +.BR e2ls (1), +.BR e2mkdir (1), +.BR e2mv (1), +.BR e2rm (1), +.BR e2tail (1). +.\" +.SH AUTHOR +The \fBe2tools\fP were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>. +.PP +This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, +for the Debian project (but may be used by others). |