NAME
dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3/ext4 file system information
SYNOPSIS
dumpe2fs [ -bfghixV ] [ -o superblock=superblock ] [ -o blocksize=blocksize ] device
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
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-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.
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-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). | ||
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-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. | ||
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-h |
only display the superblock information and not any of the block group descriptor detail information. | ||
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-i |
display the file system data from an image file created by e2image, using device as the pathname to the image file. | ||
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-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. | ||
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-x |
print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal format | ||
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-V |
print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit. |
EXIT CODE
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.
BUGS
You may need to know the physical file system structure to understand the output.
AUTHOR
dumpe2fs was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card [AT] linux.org>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts’o <tytso [AT] alum.edu>.
AVAILABILITY
dumpe2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.