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/usr/bin/dumpe2fs

Ext2/3/4 filesystem extra utilities

From e2fsprogs-extra 1.47.4-r5 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running dumpe2fs --help (exit 1). permalink

dumpe2fs 1.47.4 (6-Mar-2025)
/usr/bin/dumpe2fs: invalid option -- '-'
Usage: dumpe2fs [-bfghimxV] [-o superblock=<num>] [-o blocksize=<num>] device
Options (9)
OptionDescriptionSource
-bprint the blocks which are reserved as bad in the file system.man
-o superblock=superblockuse the block superblock when examining the file system.man
-fforce dumpe2fs to display a file system even though it may have some file system feature flags which dumpe2fs may not understand (and which can cause some of dumpe2fs's display to be suspect).man
-gdisplay the group descriptor information in a machine readable colon-separated value format.man
-honly display the superblock information and not any of the block group descriptor detail information.man
-idisplay the file system data from an image file created by e2image, using device as the pathname to the image file.man
-mIf the mmp feature is enabled on the file system, check if device is in use by another node, see e2mmpstatus(8) for full details.man
-xprint the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal formatman
-Vprint the version number of dumpe2fs and exit.man
Exit status (1) from the manual page
0the operation completed without errors

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