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

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@club-internet.fr>]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:24:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-05
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : e2tools
>   Version         : 0.0.13
>   Upstream Author : Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>
> * URL             : http://home.earthlink.net/~k_sheff/sw/e2tools/index.html
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : utilities for manipulating files in an ext2/ext3 filesystem
> 
> 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?

-Ralf.
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