Name

dumpe2fs

Synopsis

dumpe2fs device

System administration command. Print ext2/ext3 information about device’s superblock and blocks group.

Options

-b

List blocks marked as bad.

-f

Force display of filesystems with unknown feature flags.

-h

Display superblock information only.

-i

Specify device is an image file created by e2image.

-o superblock=superblock

Specify location of the superblock.

-o blocksize=blocksize

Specify blocksize to use when examining filesystem.

-x

Print block numbers in hexadecimal.

-V

Print version number and exit.

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