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What's ext4rat? Web searches don't turn anything up and I must have missed out on whatever it is, or was. (Which wouldn't be the first time.)
I did find a Python script called ext4ract which apparently pulls files out of an ext4 filesystem, but it doesn't seem to be a hugely well-known tool and I'm not sure how it's relevant here.
It's a tool that allowed to put all the files read during boot time in a sequential order in the hdd, minimizing the read time, so the device booted much faster.
It's this one: https://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
Note: I searched using duckduckgo and found it normally