E2LS(1)

✨ E2LS ✨

okay bestie, welcome to e2ls — the iconic little tool from the e2tools squad that lets you peek inside an ext2 filesystem and see everything that's living in there. it's giving "ls but make it ext2" 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

e2ls — list files and directories on an ext2 filesystem

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

e2ls [options] file_specification

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, the e2ls command is what you use to list files and directories on an ext2 filesystem. that's it. that's the whole vibe. you point it at a filesystem, it shows you what's inside. no cap. ✨

🎀 Note 🎀

okay so this is the messy part and we're all just being honest about it: files you deleted with e2rm(1) sometimes show up anyway even when you didn't pass the -D option. it's being investigated. we know. it's giving haunted house 👻. just... be aware, bestie.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a — show hidden directories. yes, the sneaky ones. let them be seen 🫶
• -c — sort by creation time. heads up though: you must include -t when using -l for this to work.
• -d dir — open the ext2 filesystem specified by dir.
• -D — show deleted files, bracketed with ><. ghost files, but make it fashion 💀
• -f — no sorting of the file list. chaos mode. raw order. we respect it.
• -i — show the inodes. very useful for the -l option, fr fr.
• -l — long listing. the classic. the main character format 👑
• -n — like -l, but it lists numeric user and group IDs instead of names.
• -r — reverse the sort order. flip it, reverse it, slay 🔄
• -t — sort by time.
• -Z — list the SELinux label from the extended attributes. security but cute 🔥

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

look at her go:

e2ls -a boot.img:.
e2ls -l /dev/hdb1:/data

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2mv(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 💜

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🧚 from the Linux crew, version date 2020-02-05, page E2LS(1) — periodt. 💖