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.TH DUMPE2FS 8 "February 2012" "E2fsprogs version 1.42.1"
.SH NAME
dumpe2fs \- dump ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem information
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dumpe2fs
[
.B \-bfhixV
]
[
.B \-o superblock=\fIsuperblock
]
[
.B \-o blocksize=\fIblocksize
]
.I device
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dumpe2fs
prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem
present on
.I device.
.PP
.B Note:
When used with a mounted filesystem, the printed
information may be old or inconsistent.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.
.TP
.B \-o superblock=\fIsuperblock
use the block
.I 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.
.TP
.B \-o blocksize=\fIblocksize
use blocks of
.I 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.
.TP
.B \-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).
.TP 
.B \-h
only display the superblock information and not any of the block
group descriptor detail information.
.TP
.B \-i
display the filesystem data from an image file created by 
.BR e2image ,
using 
.I device
as the pathname to the image file.
.TP
.B \-x
print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal format
.TP
.B \-V
print the version number of 
.B dumpe2fs
and exit.
.SH BUGS
You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the
output.
.SH AUTHOR
.B dumpe2fs 
was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>.  It is currently being
maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B dumpe2fs
is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from 
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR e2fsck (8),
.BR mke2fs (8),
.BR tune2fs (8)