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

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:39:48PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:24:21PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 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.

Will do that. I'll also mention the point is not needing root access, as
Josip suggested.

-- 
Robert Millan