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dumpe2fs — Print the super block and blocks group information for ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems. Unmount the parti

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Problem

How to use the dumpe2fs command: Print the super block and blocks group information for ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems. Unmount the partition before running this command using umount device. More information: <https://manned.org/dumpe2fs>.

Solution

dumpe2fs — Print the super block and blocks group information for ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems. Unmount the partition before running this command using umount device. More information: <https://manned.org/dumpe2fs>.

Display ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystem information:
dumpe2fs {{/dev/sdXN}}


Display the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem:
dumpe2fs -b {{/dev/sdXN}}


Force display filesystem information even with unrecognizable feature flags:
dumpe2fs -f {{/dev/sdXN}}


Only display the superblock information and not any of the block group descriptor detail information:
dumpe2fs -h {{/dev/sdXN}}


Print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal format:
dumpe2fs -x {{/dev/sdXN}}

Code Snippets

Display ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystem information

dumpe2fs {{/dev/sdXN}}

Display the blocks which are reserved as bad in the filesystem

dumpe2fs -b {{/dev/sdXN}}

Force display filesystem information even with unrecognizable feature flags

dumpe2fs -f {{/dev/sdXN}}

Only display the superblock information and not any of the block group descriptor detail information

dumpe2fs -h {{/dev/sdXN}}

Print the detailed group information block numbers in hexadecimal format

dumpe2fs -x {{/dev/sdXN}}

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tldr-pages: linux/dumpe2fs

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