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On 7/8/05, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> you could look at the genext2fs project ... its purpose is to generate small |
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> ext2 images from a directory tree and you can configure it to setup any kind |
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> of permissions/device nodes you want ... |
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Thanks for this info! I finally got around to trying genext2fs [1], |
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and it can suit my needs for the short run, including being able to |
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generate special device files. |
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I'm still interested in devising a more general purpose utility for |
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manipulating partition tables (when relevant) and file systems of disk |
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images. In addition to FUSE [2], I was considering wrapping libc so |
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that it would detect things like open("/dev/hda") and emulate ioctl's, |
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or open("/mnt/my-emulated-image-mount-point/etc/fstab"), and support |
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mknod/chmod/chown. This wouldn't work for some general cases (e.g. it |
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probably wouldn't work Gentoo's sandbox), but I think it should work |
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for basic commands like cp: it would provide just a little more |
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functionality than genext2fs. |
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[1] http://genext2fs.sourceforge.net/ |
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[2] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ |
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