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.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995 by Theodore Ts'o.  All Rights Reserved.
.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
.\" 
.TH DEBUGFS 8 "October 1995" "Version 0.5c"
.SH NAME
debugfs \- ext2 file system debugger
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B debugfs
[
[
.B \-w
]
device
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B debugfs
is a file system debugger. It can be used to examine and change the
state of an ext2 file system.
.br
.I device
is the special file corresponding to the device containing the ext2
file system (e.g /dev/hdXX).
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.I -w
Specify that the file system should be open in read-write mode. Without this
option, the file system is open in read-only mode.
.SH COMMANDS
.B debugfs
is an interactive debugger. It understands a number of commands.
.TP
.I cat <file>
Dump the contents of an inode to stdout.
.TP
.I cd <directory>
Change the current working directory to specified directory
.TP
.I chroot <directory>
Change the root directory to be the specified inode.
.TP
.I close
Close the currently open file system.
.TP
.I clri <file>
Clear the contents of the inode corresponding to
.I file
.TP
.I dump <file> <out_file>
Dump the contents of an inode to a file.
.TP
.I expand_dir <file>
Expand a directory.
.TP
.I find_free_block [goal]
Find the first free block, starting from
.I goal
and allocates it.
.TP
.I find_free_inode [dir [mode]]
Find a free inode and allocates it.
.TP
.I freeb <block>
Mark the block as not allocated.
.TP
.I freei <file>
Free the inode corresponding to
.I file
.TP
.I help
Print a list of commands understood by 
.BR debugfs (8).
.TP
.I icheck <block>
Do block->inode translation.
.TP
.I iname <inode>
Print the file name corresponding to
.I inode
(currently not implemented - see ncheck).
.TP
.I initialize <device> <blocksize>
Create an ext2 file system on
.I device
.TP
.I kill_file <file>
Remove a file and deallocates its blocks.
.TP
.I ln <source_file> <dest_file>
Create a link.
.TP
.I ls [pathname]
Emulate the
.BR ls (1)
command.
.TP
.I modify_inode <file>
Modify the contents of the inode corresponding to
.I file
.TP
.I mkdir <file>
Make a directory.
.TP
.I mknod <file> [p|[[c|b] <major> <minor>]]
Create a special device file
.TP
.I ncheck <inode>
Do inode->name translation.
.TP
.I open [-w] <device>
Open a file system.
.TP
.I pwd
Print the current working directory.
.TP
.I quit
Quit
.B debugfs
.TP
.I rm <file>
Remove a file.
.TP
.I rmdir <directory>
Remove a directory.
.TP
.I setb <block>
Mark the block as allocated.
.TP
.I seti <file>
Mark in use the inode corresponding to
.I file
.TP
.I show_super_stats
List the contents of the super block.
.TP
.I stat <file>
Dump the contents of the inode corresponding to
.I file
.TP
.I testb <block>
Test if the block is marked as allocated.
.TP
.I testi <file>
Test if the inode correponding to
.I file
is marked as allocated.
.TP
.I unlink <file>
Remove a link.
.TP
.I write source_file <file>
Create a file in the filesystem named
.IR file ,
and copy the contents of
.I source_file
into the destination file.
.SH AUTHOR
.B debugfs
was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dumpe2fs (8),
.BR e2fsck (8),
.BR mke2fs (8)