Re: How to print Superblock(ext2) data

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Hi Mahesh,


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:24 PM, mahesh sobale <msobale007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HI,
>
>      I am new to kernelnewbies. I am trying to print meta data in kernel
> space for superblock.
> for that i have to fire ioctl and write char device driver(This part i
> know),
>

how about using debugfs.

root#debugfs /dev/myvg/lv0
Try help to see all the possible commands.



>      But i don't know how create loop device and mount ext2 file system on
> that and then print
> superblock info.
>

dd if=/dev/zero of=./ext2image1 seek=500000 count=0  &> /dev/null

#Setup loopback devices
modprobe loop
losetup -d /dev/loop0
losetup /dev/loop0 ./ext2image1
mke2fs /dev/lopp0
mount /dev/loop0 /mnt

This will mount the loop device on /mnt

You can use debugfs on loop device.

umount /mnt
debugfs /dev/loop0




>      Can anybody help on this.
>
> Thanx.....
> Mahesh.
>
>

HTH,

-- 
Regards,
Sandeep.





 	
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