E2tools

Jul 20, 2023

Utilities to manipulate 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. These utilities access a filesystem directly using the ext2fs library. I wrote these tools in order to copy files into a linux filesystem on a machine that does not have ext2 support. Of course, they can also be used on a Linux machine to read/write to disk images or floppies without having to mount them or have root access.

Supported functionality

  • 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


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