E2RM(1)

✨ E2RM(1) — user commands, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, welcome to e2rm 💅 it's part of the e2tools squad and it lives in section 1 of the manual (user commands, iykyk). let's get into it 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

e2rm — deletes files and directories that live on an ext2 filesystem. yep, that's the whole gig. it's giving "rm but make it ext2" 😭💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

e2rm [options] files...

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like, the e2rm command removes files and directories on an ext2 filesystem. that's it. that's the plot. it takes your files... and it says bye bye 👋✨ no cap.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -r — recursively delete files if a directory name is given. lowkey essential if you're trying to nuke a whole directory, otherwise it's not gonna do the thing 🫶
• -v — be verbose. it will tell you what it's doing, main character energy, narrating its own life 💅

🙈 Note 🙈

okay so real talk: this program expects to have a full ext2 file specification for each argument. like, every single argument needs the whole image:/path situation. no shortcuts, no "just the filename", none of that. fr fr.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Remove a file (so simple, so iconic):

e2rm -v boot.img:/boot/grub/grub.c1 /boot/grub/grub.c2

Remove a directory and all the files (go big or go home, hence the -r):

e2rm -r boot.img:/boot/grub

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2mv(1), e2tail(1).

the whole fam, go check them out 💖

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

the e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>. absolute legend, we stan 👑

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

okay that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading 💖 this one's from the Linux manual, dated 2020-02-05, E2RM(1) era — and that's a wrap! 🦋✨