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ext2ed - The extended-2 filesystem editor, version e2fsprogs
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This version of ext2ed has been modified and updated by Theodore Ts'o
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for inclusion with the e2fsprogs package. It now builds with modern
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ncurses and I've fixed various small bugs, particular in the redrawing
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and resizing functions.
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It is currently not built by default -- the top-level e2fsprogs
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Makefile doesn't recurse into this directory. This is because ext2ed
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has a number of VERY SERIOUS shortcomings:
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1) It doesn't work on filesystems bigger than 2GB
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2) It assumes that all's the world an Intel, and assumes that
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everything is in Intel (little-endian) byte order.
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Fixing either of these problems would be non-trivial, and so I at this
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point DO NOT RECOMMEND that distributions try to include this program,
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even as modified and updated in e2fsprogs. This especially goes for
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Debian, where the Debian maintainer for e2fsprogs has a history of
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making authorized changes to e2fsprogs to include programs that aren't
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supported, and then starts bugging me with bug reports. YES I KNOW.
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THIS PROGRAM HAS HORRIBLE SHORTCOMINGS. IT IS INCLUDED HERE ONLY
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BECAUSE IT'S A CONVENIENT WAY FOR (FOR E2FSPROGS DEVELOPERS ON INTEL
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MACHINES) TO GENERATE TEST CASES BY SELECTIVELY CORRUPTING
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FILESYSTEMS. I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM FOR USE BY GENERAL USERS
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SO PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE IT IN A DISTRIBUTION.
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I have currently disabled the use of GNU Readline in this program,
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because readline and ncurses really don't play well together at all.
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Readline assumes that it can write arbitrary text to the screen
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(especially when it tries to print out a completion list), which just
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doesn't work with ncurses. Fixing this so they would work together
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would require wholesale changes to readline.
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Theodore Ts'o
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tytso@MIT.EDU
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May 12, 2001
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ext2ed - The extended-2 filesystem editor, version 0.2
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This is version 0.2 of ext2ed - The extended-2 filesystem editor.
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Modifications on Apr 5 2001
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This is minor bug fixes to ext2ed, as of April 2001.
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It supports modern ext2 version that has file type in directory structure
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and fixes the misunderstanding between ncurses and
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readline.
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I first applied patches from Red Hat except the one for readline that
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rewrote a readline behavior.
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Globals diffs between version 0.1 and 0.2 is stored in file :
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diff-ext2ed.1.2
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Christian Bac <Christian.Bac@nt-evry.fr>
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Documentation
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ext2ed's documentation consists of three documents:
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1. The user's guide.
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2. Technical overview of the ext2 filesystem.
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3. The EXT2ED design and implementation document.
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Those documents are available in the doc directory, in linuxdoc-sgml and
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postscript formats.
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The documentation is also available online at:
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http://tochnapc2.technion.ac.il
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under the ext2ed section.
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Installation
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ext2ed requires the kernel sources and the readline and ncurses packages.
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Please edit the makefile if you are using an "old" version of ncurses (See the
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details below) or if gcc can't find the various header files and libraries.
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To install, simply issue a 'make' command to compile and a 'make install'
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command to install. I have also included an already compiled linux a.out
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binary.
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ext2ed and ncurses
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------------------
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ext2ed uses the ncurses library for terminal output. It is very important
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that ncurses will be properly installed on your system:
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1. Old versions of ncurses (around 1.8.5) need the OLD_NCURSES compile
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time option in EXT2ED.
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At least from 1.9.2c, this flag should not be used. I would recommend
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upgrading the ncurses library to the newer versions.
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2. ncurses uses its own terminfo database rather then the termcap file.
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It is important that the terminfo database will be found by ncurses.
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If this is not the case, you will see on startup some lines which
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refer to /etc/termcap. This will mean that there is a problem with
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the terminfo database.
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3. Newer versions of ncurses (and the 1.3 series of the kernel) describe
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the linux console in the entry 'linux' and not 'console', as it was
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before. If you run ext2ed in the linux console, you should either
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set your TERM environment variable to 'linux' or link
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l/linux to c/console in the terminfo database.
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4. The precompiled binary was linked with ncurses 1.9.4 and will search
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for the terminfo database on /usr/local/lib/terminfo. If you are
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using it, and your 1.9.4 compatible terminfo database is not on the
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directory above, use the TERMINFO environment variable to specify
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an alternate location.
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Running ext2ed
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For those of you who don't like reading lengthy articles, here are a few
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basic guidelines:
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1. Don't use ext2ed to change a mounted filesystem !
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Using ext2ed in read-only mode on a mounted filesystem can be allowed
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by using the configuration file option 'AllowMountedRead on'. However,
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note that the displayed data will be unreliable.
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2. ext2ed currently can't handle filesystems bigger than 2 GB. I am
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sorry for the inconvenience. This will hopefully be fixed in future
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releases.
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3. Before running ext2ed, edit the configuration file
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/var/lib/ext2ed/ext2ed.conf to suit your needs. The various
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configuration options are documented there.
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4. Use the 'setdevice' command to open an ext2 filesystem.
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e.g. 'setdevice /dev/hda1'.
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5. If the filesystem is an ext2 filesystem and ext2ed fails to
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autodetect this, use the 'ForceExt2 on' configuration file option.
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6. The filesystem will always be opened in read-only mode. Feel free to
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experiment, but take care with the 'enablewrite' command.
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Feel free to send me feedback with anything regarding to ext2ed.
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Enjoy,
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Gadi Oxman <tgud@tochnapc2.technion.ac.il>
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Haifa, August 23 1995
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