NAME

       e2tools -  utilities to manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem

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.

       Supported functionality:

       e2cp   copy files

       e2mv   move files

       e2rm   remove files

       e2mkdir
              create directory

       e2ln   create hard links

       e2ls   list files/directories

       e2tail output the last part of a file

       In general, to specify a directory or file on an ext2 filesystem  for  the  e2tools  utilities,  use  the
       following form:

              filesystem:directory_path

       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:

              /tmp/boot.img:/tmp/file1

              /tmp/file2

              /tmp/file3

              /tmp/boot2.img:/tmp/file4

       Files 1-3 are on /tmp/boot.img and the last file is on /tmp/boot2.img

SEE ALSO

       e2cp(1), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).

AUTHOR

       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
       others).

                                                  March 2, 2005                                       E2TOOLS(7)