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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
device
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BI dumpe2fs
prints the super block and blocks group information for the filesystem
present on
.I device.
.PP
.BI dumpe2fs
is similar to Berkeley's
.BI dumpfs
program for the BSD Fast File System.
.SH BUGS
You need to know the physical filesystem structure to understand the
output.
.SH AUTHOR
.B dumpe2fs 
has been written by Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>, the developer and maintainer
of the ext2 fs.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B dumpe2fs
is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.ibp.fr and tsx-11.mit.edu in
/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR e2fsck (8),
.BR mke2fs (8),
.BR tune2fs (8)