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6 dumpe2fs - dump ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem information
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9 dumpe2fs [ -bfhixV ] [ -o superblock=superblock ] [ -o blocksize=block‐
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13 dumpe2fs prints the super block and blocks group information for the
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16 dumpe2fs is similar to Berkeley's dumpfs program for the BSD Fast File
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20 -b print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.
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23 use the block superblock when examining the filesystem. This
24 option is not usually needed except by a filesystem wizard who
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28 use blocks of blocksize bytes when examining the filesystem.
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33 -f force dumpe2fs to display a filesystem even though it may have
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37 -h only display the superblock information and not any of the block
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40 -i display the filesystem data from an image file created by
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46 -V print the version number of dumpe2fs and exit.
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53 dumpe2fs was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>. It is cur‐
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57 dumpe2fs is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from
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61 e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8), tune2fs(8)
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66E2fsprogs version 1.41.12 May 2010 DUMPE2FS(8)