NAME
e2cp - copies files from/to an e2fs filesystem
SYNOPSIS
e2cp [options] files... dest
DESCRIPTION
The e2cp command copies files to/from an e2fs filesystem from/to the machine's filesystem.
OPTIONS
A single `-' (dash) can be used instead of a file name to indicate standard input/output.
- -0
-
Input lines terminated by a null character.
- -a
-
Absolute directory names - create directories instead of just copying into the destination. Only valid for copying into an ext2fs filesystem.
- -d dest_dir
-
Destination of files to be copied. May be in the ext2fs filesystem or the host filesystem.
- -G gid
-
Set the default group to gid.
- -O uid
-
Set the default file owner to uid.
- -p
-
Preserve host file attributes (permissions, times, etc.) when copying files.
- -P mode
-
Set the file permissions (ie 755, 666).
- -s src_dir
-
The source of the files to be copied.
- -v
-
Be verbose.
EXAMPLES
Copy a file and use the default permission and ownership of the current user:
e2cp README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp
Do the same thing, but keep permissions & ownership:
e2cp -p README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp
Dump a file to standard out:
e2cp /tmp/boot.img:/tmp/README.txt - | wc
Get a file from standard input and put it on an unmounted partition:
tar cf - /data/logs|gzip| e2cp - /dev/hdb1:/backup/logs.tar.gz
Copy the files from one directory and put them under another directory on an unmounted partition, keeping the original paths, permissions & ownership:
find /data -type f |tee filelist | e2cp -apv -d /dev/hdb1:/mirror
Copy files from a directory on an unmounted partition to a local directory (Note: this does not recreate the directories in the local filesystem, yet). The list of files are read from standard input:
e2cp -pv -s /dev/hdb1:/mirror -d /data2 < filelist
Copy a file to a file system and make the group and ownership root
e2cp -G 0 -O 0 myfile /tmp/boot.img/boot/rootfile
SEE ALSO
e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).
AUTHOR
The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).