MirBSD manpage: ffsinfo(8)

FSINFO(8)                BSD System Manager's Manual                 FSINFO(8)

NAME

     ffsinfo - dump all meta information of an existing ufs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

     ffsinfo [-L] [-g cylinder_group] [-i inode] [-l level] [-o outfile]
             special | file

DESCRIPTION

     The ffsinfo utility extends the dumpfs(8) utility.

     The output is generated into the file outfile. Also expect the output
     file to be rather large. Up to 2 percent of the size of the specified
     filesystem is not uncommon.

     The following options are available:

     -L      Specifying this option skips the tests of the disklabel. This is
             done automatically, if the specified filename to dump is a plain
             file.

     -g cylinder_group
             This restricts the dump to information about this cylinder group
             only. Here 0 means the first cylinder group and -1 the last one.

     -i inode
             This restricts the dump to information about this particular
             inode only. Here the minimum acceptable inode is 2. If this op-
             tion is omitted but a cylinder group is defined then only inodes
             within that cylinder group are dumped.

     -l level
             The level of detail which will be dumped. This value defaults to
             255 and is the "bitwise or" of the following table:

             0x001   initial superblock
             0x002   superblock copies in each cylinder group
             0x004   cylinder group summary in initial cylinder group
             0x008   cylinder group information
             0x010   inode allocation bitmap
             0x020   fragment allocation bitmap
             0x040   cluster maps and summary
             0x080   rotational layout tables
             0x100   inode information
             0x200   indirect block dump

     -o outfile
             This allows to change the output filename where the dump is writ-
             ten to. The current default is /var/tmp/ffsinfo. If - is provid-
             ed, output will be sent to stdout.

EXAMPLES

           ffsinfo -l 1023 /dev/rwd0f

     will dump /dev/rwd0f with all available information.

BUGS

     Currently ffsinfo can only dump unmounted filesystems. Do not try dumping
     a mounted filesystem, your system may panic and you will not be able to
     use the filesystem any longer.

     Also snapshots are handled like plain files. They should get their own
     level to provide for independent control of the amount of what gets
     dumped. It probably also makes sense to some extend to dump the snapshot
     as a filesystem.

SEE ALSO

     disklabel(8), dumpfs(8), fsck(8), growfs(8), newfs(8), tunefs(8)

AUTHORS

     Christoph Herrmann <chm@FreeBSD.org>
     Thomas-Henning von Kamptz <tomsoft@FreeBSD.org>
     The GROWFS team <growfs@Tomsoft.COM>

HISTORY

     The ffsinfo utility first appeared in FreeBSD 4.4.

MirBSD #10-current            September 8, 2000                              1