dumpe2fs • man page

Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o.  All Rights Reserved.
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dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem information

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 <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 e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net