Doug Hughes wrote:
> Adam Moskowitz wrote:
>> Does anyone know of other tools that will let me populate an EXT2 image
>> file, again, *WITHOUT* mounting the file?
> Oh, definitely take a look at knoppix and/or unionfs. It does what I
> think you are looking for. It works with an original ISO and cloop
> unionfs to keep the backing-store image read-only while making a
> writable write-aside copy in memory that you can modify. It's how they
> enable you to boot a linux on a CD and still do device discovery and
> manipulation for your hardware as well as allowing you to edit files.
> Every time there is a write, it gets written elsewhere and the original
> backing store remains unmodified.
He is not looking to keep the filesystem image read-only. He is looking
to modify the filesystem image, without going through the filesystem
kernel driver.
He is looking for "mtools", but for ext2 instead of FAT.
Unfortunately, I do not know of any such tools.
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