dumpe2fs (8)

dumpe2fs [ -bfhixV ] [ -o superblock=superblock ] [ -o blocksize=blocksize ] device

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.

-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 filesystem.

-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).

-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 hexadecimal format

-V

print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit.

You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the output.

dumpe2fs was written by Remy Card <[email protected]>. It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>.

dumpe2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8). ext4(5)