A project by Maxime Lovino and Thomas Ibanez
The idea of this System Programming project is to learn how the Ext2 filesystem works by programming an API to mount Ext2 images using FUSE.
You can find some sample Ext2 images in the data folder of this project
This project works with Python 2, it has been tested running version 2.7.10
The following Python modules are required:
bitarray
hexdump
fusepy
struct
You can install them if they're not already present on your system by using pip
You can run tester1
and tester2
by unzipping the archive containing the images in the data folder and replacing the path of the smallimg0.ext2.img
and mediumimg0.ext2.img
in each file respectively.
Then you can launch both tests with Python like this:
python testerX.py
You can also mount an image on your system by using our API. Note that for this you need to have the FUSE library installed on your computer.
To mount an image, first create a folder where you want to mount the image, then:
python ext2fuse.py <PathToImage> <MountPointPath>
To unmount the image, just press CTRL+C
after closing all Finder/File Explorer/Terminal sessions windows accessing the mounted image.