Bug#105263: ITP: genext2fs -- ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems

[David Kimdon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I want if for debian-installer, maybe boot-floppies, is it already included in
something?  My searching turned up nothing so far.

http://freshmeat.net/redir/genext2fs/3173/url_tgz/genext2fs-1.3.tgz

// ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems
// Copyright (C) 2000 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
// as published by the Free Software Foundation; version
// 2 of the License.

// `genext2fs' is a mean to generate an ext2 filesystem
// as a normal (non-root) user. It doesn't require you to mount
// the image file to copy files on it. It doesn't even require
// you to be the superuser to make device nodes.
//
// Warning ! `genext2fs' has been designed for embedded
// systems. As such, it will generate a filesystem for single-user
// usage: all files/directories/etc... will belong to UID/GID 0
//
// Example usage:
//
// # genext2fs -b 1440 -d srcdir /dev/fd0
//
// All files in the srcdir directory will be written to /dev/fd0 as
// a new ext2 filesystem image. You can then mount the floppy as
// usual.
//
// # genext2fs -b 1024 -d builddir -f devices.txt flashdisk.img
//
// This one would build a filesystem from all the files in builddir,
// then would read a devices list and make apropriate nodes. The
// format for the device list is:
//
// drwx            /dev
// crw-    10,190  /dev/lcd
// brw-    1,0     /dev/ram0
// 
// This device list builds the /dev directory, a character device
// node /dev/lcd (major 10, minor 190) and a block device node
// /dev/ram0 (major 1, minor 0)


-David