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DUMPE2FS(8) DUMPE2FS(8)

NAME
dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3 filesystem information

SYNOPSIS
dumpe2fs [ -bfhixV ] [ -ob superblock ] [ -oB blocksize ] device

DESCRIPTION
dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem present on device.

dumpe2fs is similar to Berkeley’s dumpfs program for the BSD Fast File System.

OPTIONS
-b print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.

-ob 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.

-oB 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.

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 currently 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)

E2fsprogs version 1.39 May 2006 DUMPE2FS(8)