e2fsprogs/misc/filefrag.8.in
Andreas Dilger 612358c193 filefrag: minor usability improvements
Add '-V' to filefrag to print the installed version of the tool.

If '-V' is used twice, print out the list of supported FIEMAP flags.
This can be used to check if filefrag understands a specific feature.

Include FIEMAP in the error message printed when filefrag cannot
get the file layout. Since FIEMAP is commonly available and tried
first, it should also be mentioned in the error message unless it
was requested to only run FIBMAP.

Update filefrag.1.in man page to cover the new -V option.

Fix a formatting error with the recently added '-P' options, and
include '-E' and '-P' in the SYNOPSIS section.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Lustre-bug-id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-11848
Reviewed-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@whamcloud.com>
Change-Id: Ib126bdd70efa1775aef6db761f54e27a593ebbe5
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2021-04-02 16:04:38 -04:00

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.\" -*- nroff -*-
.TH FILEFRAG 8 "@E2FSPROGS_MONTH@ @E2FSPROGS_YEAR@" "E2fsprogs version @E2FSPROGS_VERSION@"
.SH NAME
filefrag \- report on file fragmentation
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B filefrag
[
.BI \-b blocksize
]
[
.B \-BeEkPsvVxX
]
[
.I files...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B filefrag
reports on how badly fragmented a particular file might be. It makes
allowances for indirect blocks for ext2 and ext3 filesystems, but can be
used on files for any filesystem.
.PP
The
.B filefrag
program initially attempts to get the
extent information using FIEMAP ioctl which is more efficient and faster.
If FIEMAP is not supported then filefrag will fall back to using FIBMAP.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-B
Force the use of the older FIBMAP ioctl instead of the FIEMAP ioctl for
testing purposes.
.TP
.BI \-b blocksize
Use
.I blocksize
in bytes, or with [KMG] suffix, up to 1GB for output instead of the
filesystem blocksize. For compatibility with earlier versions of
.BR filefrag ,
if
.I blocksize
is unspecified it defaults to 1024 bytes. Since
.I blocksize
is an optional argument, it must be added without any space after
.BR -b .
.TP
.B \-e
Print output in extent format, even for block-mapped files.
.TP
.B \-E
Display the contents of ext4's extent status cache. This feature is not
supported on all kernels, and is only supported on ext4 file systems.
.TP
.B \-k
Use 1024\-byte blocksize for output (identical to '\-b1024').
.TP
.B -P
Pre-load the ext4 extent status cache for the file. This is not
supported on all kernels, and is only supported on ext4 filesystems.
.TP
.B \-s
Sync the file before requesting the mapping.
.TP
.B \-v
Be verbose when checking for file fragmentation.
.TP
.B \-V
Print version number of program and library. If given twice, also
print the FIEMAP flags that are understood by the current version.
.TP
.B \-x
Display mapping of extended attributes.
.TP
.B \-X
Display extent block numbers in hexadecimal format.
.SH AUTHOR
.B filefrag
was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.