dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3/ext4 file system information
dumpe2fs [ -bfghixV ] [ -o
superblock=superblock ] [ -o
blocksize=blocksize ] device
dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group
information for the file system present on device.
Note: When used with a mounted file system, the printed
information may be old or inconsistent.
- -b
- print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the file system.
- -o
superblock=superblock
- use the block superblock when examining the file system. This
option is not usually needed except by a file system wizard who is
examining the remains of a very badly corrupted file system.
- -o
blocksize=blocksize
- use blocks of blocksize bytes when examining the file system. This
option is not usually needed except by a file system wizard who is
examining the remains of a very badly corrupted file system.
- -f
- force dumpe2fs to display a file system even though it may have some file
system 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 file system data from an image file created by e2image,
using device as the pathname to the image file.
- -m
- If the mmp feature is enabled on the file system, check if
device is in use by another node, see e2mmpstatus(8) for
full details. If used together with the -i option, only the MMP
block information is printed.
- -x
- print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal
format
- -V
- print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit.
dumpe2fs exits with a return code of 0 if the operation
completed without errors. It will exit with a non-zero return code if there
are any errors, such as problems reading a valid superblock, bad checksums,
or if the device is in use by another node and -m is specified.
You may need to know the physical file system structure to
understand the output.
dumpe2fs was written by Remy Card
<Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore
Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.
dumpe2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available
from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.