ext2 creator

Nate Riffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
For as long as I've been involved with the project, the root.bin
initrd has been created using debugfs and a "script" which is fed into
it.  This has basically been ok for us, nevermind that the resulting
filesystem is incomplete and does not pass fsck due to the
incompleteness of our script.  For a few days, I have been trying to
design a similar system for producing a root filesystem image for a
UML system.  Debugfs's weaknesses are clearly showing (inability to
create symlinks or chmod files, etc) and I am in need of a more
appropriate tool.  Specifically, I am looking for something more like
genromfs or mkisofs, which creates a filesystem image and then fills
it with the files it finds in a directory specified on the command
line.  I have not been able to find such a tool for creating ext2
filesystems.  Does anyone know of one?

-Nate

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