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| b5ffeade | 2 | .TH EXT2ED 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@" |
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3 | .SH NAME |
| 4 | ext2ed \- ext2 file system editor | |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 6 | .B ext2ed | |
| 7 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 8 | .B ext2ed | |
| d04ad325 | 9 | in an |
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10 | .B editor |
| 11 | for the | |
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12 | .B second extended file system. |
| 13 | Its aim is to show you the various internal file system structures in an | |
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14 | intuitive form so that you would be able to easily understand and modify |
| 15 | them. | |
| 16 | .SH DOCUMENTATION | |
| 17 | The documentation is not available in man page format. Instead, I have | |
| 18 | written three articles which are related to ext2ed: | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | The first article is | |
| 21 | .B The user's guide. | |
| 22 | This article explains how to use ext2ed. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | The second article is | |
| 25 | .B The Ext2fs overview. | |
| e87bb84b | 26 | This article gives an overview of internal structure of the ext2 file system. |
| 583a1ce5 | 27 | You need to understand the internal layout in order to effectively edit |
| e87bb84b | 28 | your file system. |
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29 | |
| 30 | The third article is | |
| 31 | .B EXT2ED - Design and implementation. | |
| 32 | This article explains how I constructed ext2ed. You may want to have a look | |
| 33 | in it if you plan to view or modify the source code. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | .SH WARNING | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | .B | |
| e87bb84b | 38 | Do not use ext2ed on a mounted file system. |
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39 | |
| 40 | .SH FILES | |
| 41 | .TP | |
| 42 | .I /usr/bin/ext2ed | |
| 43 | The program itself. | |
| 44 | .TP | |
| b5ffeade | 45 | .I @root_sysconfdir@/ext2ed.conf |
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46 | ext2ed's configuration file. |
| 47 | .TP | |
| b5ffeade | 48 | .I @datadir@/ext2.descriptors |
| e87bb84b | 49 | Definition of the various objects for the ext2 file system. |
| 583a1ce5 | 50 | .TP |
| b5ffeade | 51 | .I /var/log/ext2ed.log |
| e87bb84b | 52 | Log file of actual changes made to the file system. |
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53 | .TP |
| 54 | .I /usr/man/man8/ext2ed.8 | |
| 55 | The manual page. | |
| 56 | .TP | |
| b5ffeade | 57 | .I @datadir@/doc/ext2ed/user-guide-0.1.ps |
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58 | The user's guide. |
| 59 | .TP | |
| b5ffeade | 60 | .I @datadir@/doc/ext2ed/Ext2fs-overview-0.1.ps |
| e87bb84b | 61 | Technical overview of the ext2 file system. |
| 583a1ce5 | 62 | .TP |
| b5ffeade | 63 | .I @datadir@/doc/ext2ed/ext2ed-design-0.1.ps |
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64 | EXT2ED design notes. |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | .SH BUGS | |
| e87bb84b | 67 | File Systems bigger than 2 GB aren't yet supported. |
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68 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 69 | Gadi Oxman <tgud@tochnapc2.technion.ac.il> | |
| 70 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 71 | .BR e2fsck (8), | |
| 72 | .BR debugfs (8) |