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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ext2fs.4 b/share/man/man4/ext2fs.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..816ea942d29f --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/ext2fs.4 @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Craig Rodrigues +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products +.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission +.\" +.\" THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES +.\" OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. +.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, +.\" INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT +.\" NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, +.\" DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY +.\" THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT +.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF +.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd December 30, 2018 +.Dt EXT2FS 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ext2fs +.Nd "ext2/ext3/ext4 file system" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To link into the kernel: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "options EXT2FS" +.Ed +.Pp +To load as a kernel loadable module: +.Pp +.Dl "kldload ext2fs" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver will permit the +.Fx +kernel to access +ext2 +file systems and its derivatives. +It currently implements most of the features required by +.Em ext3 +and +.Em ext4 +file systems. +Support for Extended Attributes in +.Em ext4 +is experimental. +Journalling and encryption are currently not supported. +.Sh EXAMPLES +To mount a +.Nm +volume located on +.Pa /dev/ada1s1 : +.Pp +.Dl "mount -t ext2fs /dev/ada1s1 /mnt" +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr nmount 2 , +.Xr unmount 2 , +.Xr fstab 5 , +.Xr mount 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 2.2 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +kernel implementation is derived from code written, +or modified, +by +.An Godmar Back +using the UFS CSRG sources for CMU Mach. +.Pp +.An John Dyson +did the initial port to +.Fx . +.An Aditya Sarawgi +merged important parts of the allocation code from a clean-room +.Nx +implementation. +.An Zheng Liu +and +.An Fedor Uporov +implemented the read and write support respectively for +.Em ext4 +filesystems. +The +.Fx +community has contributed a huge amount of modifications. +.Pp +The initial version of this manual page was written by +.An Craig Rodrigues Aq Mt rodrigc@FreeBSD.org . |