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DUMPE2FS(8) System Manager's Manual DUMPE2FS(8) 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. The device specifier can either be a filename (i.e., /dev/sda1), or a LABEL or UUID specifier: "LABEL=volume-label" or "UUID=uuid". (i.e., LABEL=home or UUID=e40486c6-84d5-4f2f-b99c-032281799c9d). Note: When used with a mounted file system, the printed information may be old or inconsistent. OPTIONS -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 op- tion is not usually needed except by a file system wizard who is ex- amining 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. 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 de- vice 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@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), e2mmpstatus(8), mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8). ext4(5) E2fsprogs version 1.47.4 March 2025 DUMPE2FS(8)
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