DUMPE2FS(8) System Manager's Manual DUMPE2FS(8) NAME dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem information SYNOPSIS dumpe2fs [ -bfghixV ] [ -o superblock=superblock ] [ -o block- size=blocksize ] device DESCRIPTION dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem present on device. Note: When used with a mounted filesystem, the printed information may be old or inconsistent. OPTIONS -b print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem. -o superblock=superblock use the block superblock when examining the filesystem. This option is not usually needed except by a filesystem wizard who is examining the remains of a very badly corrupted filesystem. -o blocksize=blocksize use blocks of blocksize bytes when examining the filesystem. This option is not usually needed except by a filesystem wizard who is examining the remains of a very badly corrupted filesys- tem. -f force dumpe2fs to display a filesystem even though it may have some filesystem feature flags which dumpe2fs may not understand (and which can cause some of dumpe2fs's display to be suspect). -g display the group descriptor information in a machine readable colon-separated value format. The fields displayed are the group number; the number of the first block in the group; the superblock location (or -1 if not present); the range of blocks used by the group descriptors (or -1 if not present); the block bitmap location; the inode bitmap location; and the range of blocks used by the inode table. -h only display the superblock information and not any of the block group descriptor detail information. -i display the filesystem data from an image file created by e2image, using device as the pathname to the image file. -x print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadeci- mal format -V print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit. BUGS You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the output. AUTHOR dumpe2fs was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is cur- rently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>. AVAILABILITY dumpe2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net. SEE ALSO e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8). ext4(5) E2fsprogs version 1.43.5 August 2017 DUMPE2FS(8) |