e2undo - Replay an undo log for an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem
e2undo [ -f ] [ -h ] [ -n ] [
-o offset ] [ -v ] [ -z undo_file ]
undo_log device
e2undo will replay the undo log undo_log for an
ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem found on device. This can be used to undo a
failed operation by an e2fsprogs program.
- -f
- Normally, e2undo will check the filesystem superblock to make sure
the undo log matches with the filesystem on the device. If they do not
match, e2undo will refuse to apply the undo log as a safety
mechanism. The -f option disables this safety mechanism.
- -h
- Display a usage message.
- -n
- Dry-run; do not actually write blocks back to the filesystem.
- -o offset
- Specify the filesystem's offset (in bytes) from the beginning of
the device or file.
- -v
- Report which block we're currently replaying.
- -z undo_file
- Before overwriting a file system block, write the old contents of the
block to an undo file. This undo file can be used with e2undo(8) to
restore the old contents of the file system should something go wrong. If
the empty string is passed as the undo_file argument, the undo file will
be written to a file named e2undo-device.e2undo in the directory
specified via the E2FSPROGS_UNDO_DIR environment variable.
WARNING: The undo file cannot be used to recover from a power
or system crash.
e2undo was written by Aneesh Kumar K.V.
(aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com)
e2undo is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available
from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.