NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | AUTHOR | COLOPHON

FILEFRAG(8)                System Manager's Manual               FILEFRAG(8)

NAME         top

       filefrag - report on file fragmentation

SYNOPSIS         top

       filefrag [ -bblocksize ] [ -BeksvxX ] [ files...  ]

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.
       The 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.

OPTIONS         top

       -B     Force the use of the older FIBMAP ioctl instead of the FIEMAP
              ioctl for testing purposes.
       -bblocksize
              Use blocksize in bytes for output instead of the filesystem
              blocksize.  For compatibility with earlier versions of
              filefrag, if blocksize is unspecified it defaults to 1024
              bytes.
       -e     Print output in extent format, even for block-mapped files.
       -k     Use 1024-byte blocksize for output (identical to '-b 1024').
       -s     Sync the file before requesting the mapping.
       -v     Be verbose when checking for file fragmentation.
       -x     Display mapping of extended attributes.
       -X     Display extent block numbers in hexadecimal format.

AUTHOR         top

       filefrag was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the e2fsprogs (utilities for ext2/3/4
       filesystems) project.  Information about the project can be found at
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E2fsprogs version 1.43.5-WIP    February 2017                    FILEFRAG(8)