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

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

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.
> 
>     * copy files: e2cp
>     * move files: e2mv
>     * remove files: e2rm
>     * create directory: e2mkdir
>     * create hard links: e2ln
>     * list files/directories: e2ls
>     * output the last part of a file: e2tail 

Please mention somewhere in the description that these utilities are for
manipulating a filesystem directly, from userland, without mounting it.
Otherwise the description sounds a bit strange, and it is not clear what
purpose these tools serve.

-- 
 - mdz