This commit adds support for converting QCOW2 image created previously
with e2image into raw image. The QCOW2 image is detected automatically,
so there is not new option. Just use following command:
e2image -r image.qcow image.raw
No that this tool is aimed to quickly convert qcow2 image created with
e2image into raw image. In order to improve speed we are doing some
assumption I believe might not be true for regular qcow2 images. So it
was not tested with regular QCOW2 images and it might not work with
them. The intention of this tool is only convert images previously
created by e2image.
Note that there is nothing special with QCOW2 images created by e2images
and it can be used with tools like qemu-img, or qemu-nbd without any
problems.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit adds support for exporting filesystem into QCOW2 image
format. Like sparse format this saves space, by writing only necessary
(metadata blocks) into image. Unlike sparse image, QCOW2 image is NOT
sparse, hence does not change its size by copying with not-sparse-aware
tools.
New options '-Q' has been added to tell the e2image to use QCOW2 as an
output image format. QCOW2 supports encryption and compression, however
e2image so far does no support such features, however you can still
scramble filenames with '-s' option.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The e2fsprogs programs have historically just said that they operate
on ext2 and ext3 file system in their man pages. Update them to say
that they also operate on ext4 file systems.
Addresses-Launchpad-bug: #381854
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
dumpe2fs.c (main): Add new flag, -i, which will allow dumpe2fs to dump
out the filesystem statistics from an ext2 image file.
Many files:
e2image.8.in: New manual page
badblocks.8.in, e2label.8.in, mke2fs.8.in mklost+found.8.in,
tune2fs.8.in: Update location of e2fsprogs to be
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.