make_ext3fs?

[Baruch Siach]

Hi Nadav,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:26:03AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "make_ext3fs?":
> > Android uses a tool called "make_ext4fs". You give it a file system size
> > and a directory, and it creates a file of the specified size that
> > contains the content of the directory as an EXT4 file system (for
> > loopback mount or dd purposes).
> 
> I don't know of a specific tool like this, but it sounds like something
> which can easily be done with a few line shell script.

[snip]

The advantage of genext2fs over a fsck wrapper is that it lets you create 
device nodes in the ext2 image without having root privileges. This feature is 
very convenient when generating root filesystem images.

baruch

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