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Re: Bug#200153: ITP: e2tools -- utilities for manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem



On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:57:35PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > > E2tools is a simple set of GPL'ed utilities to read, write, and
> > > manipulate files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem.
> > 
> > please excuse my ignorance - what would be the advantage of these
> > tools over the core file utilities which use the VFS layer?
> 
> You don't need root. Useful for example to build rescue floppy images.

Could this be better explicated? Preferably in the package description?

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