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.\" Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o.  All Rights Reserved.
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.TH DUMPE2FS 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
dumpe2fs \- dump filesystem information
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dumpe2fs
[
.B \-bfhV
]
[
.B \-ob 
.I superblock
]
[
.B \-oB
.I blocksize
]
.I device
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dumpe2fs
prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem
present on
.I device.
.PP
.B dumpe2fs
is similar to Berkeley's
.B dumpfs
program for the BSD Fast File System.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem.
.TP
.BI \-ob " superblock"
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 corupted filesystem.
.TP
.BI \-oB " blocksize"
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 corupted 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 \-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 <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
of the ext2 fs.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B dumpe2fs
is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available for anonymous 
ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR e2fsck (8),
.BR mke2fs (8),
.BR tune2fs (8)