[syslinux] Announcing EXT2FS lib for syslinux

[Don Hiatt]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:12 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/25/2010 02:40 PM, Don Hiatt wrote:
> > 
> > * Usage
> >   -----
> >   Usage: ext2fs.c32 /dev/hd[a-z][1-9] cmd cmd-options 
> >   e.g. /dev/hda1 would be the first partition of the first (discovered)
> > disk
> > 
> >   Examples:
> >   * Display a text file
> >     ext2fs.c32 /dev/hdb1 cat /root/file.txt
> >   * Copy a file
> >     ext2fs.c32 /dev/hdb1 cp /root/file.txt /root/newfile.txt
> >   * Display a directory
> >     ext2fs.c32 /dev/hdb1 ls /boot
> >   * Make a directory 
> >     ext2fs.c32 /dev/hdb1 mkdir /foo
> >   * Remove a file
> >     ext2fs.c32 /dev/hdb1 rm /root/file.txt
> > 
> 
> I would really like to see us using a standard mapping of strings to
> filesystems, and that mapping needs to:
> 
> a) be compatible with what we currently have in chain.c32;
> b) live in disklib.
> 
> That is, instead of /dev/hdb1 it needs to be hd1,1; and it should handle
> all the various additional options -- MBR ID and so on.
> 
> For Syslinux 5.xx I intend to pull this into the core, so unifying it
> now is important.
> 
> 	-hpa

I'm going to start the port to disklib in the next day or so and I'll
make those changes along the way.

don