FSXFSINFO(1)

✨ fsxfsinfo ✨

okay so bestie, let me put you ON to something 💅 this is fsxfsinfo — your little group-chat plug for figuring out literally everything about a X File System (XFS) volume. it's the manual page for the tool, and yes i'm about to walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🎀

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🔍 NAME

fsxfsinfo — determines information about a X File System (XFS) volume 🦋

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📜 SYNOPSIS

fsxfsinfo [-B bodyfile] [-E inode_number] [-F path] [-o offset] [-dhHvV]
          source

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💖 DESCRIPTION

so fsxfsinfo is a utility whose whole job — its entire main character energy — is determining information about a X File System (XFS) volume ✨

it's part of the libfsxfs package, and libfsxfs is a library for accessing the X File System (XFS) format. so yeah, it's giving "i have a whole library backing me up" 👑

source is the source file. like, the thing you're inspecting. the moment. the file in question 🫶

The options are as follows:

✨ the options bestie ✨

• -B bodyfile — outputs file system information as a bodyfile 📄
• -d — calculates a MD5 hash of a file entry to include in the bodyfile 🔥 (only makes sense with the bodyfile vibe, iykyk)
• -E inode_number — shows information about a specific inode, or you can just say "all" and get everything, no cap 👑
• -F path — shows information about a specific file entry path 🛤️
• -h — shows this help 🙈 (hi, that's what you're reading, sort of)
• -H — shows the file system hierarchy 🌳
• -o offset — specifies the volume offset 📏
• -v — verbose output to stderr, she's chatty 💬
• -V — prints the version ⭐

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🌸 ENVIRONMENT

None

literally nothing. no environment variables. she doesn't need them 💜

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🎀 FILES

None

also nothing. no files list. iconic minimalism ✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES

okay here's the moment you've been waiting for, the demonstration 🫶

# fsxfsinfo xfs.raw
fsxfsinfo 20220728

X File System information:

Volume information:
        Format version                  : 5
        Label                           : xfs_test

the way that it just prints Format version : 5 and Label : xfs_test?? chef's kiss 💅

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😭 DIAGNOSTICS

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and lowkey important: Verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so like, if it's not compiled in, no amount of -v is gonna summon it 💀

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💀 BUGS

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libfsxfs/ 🐛

yes bestie, actual bugs. tell them. they want to know. don't be shy 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. ✍️

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⭐ COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2020-2022, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO

• libfsxfs

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that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this was fsxfsinfo from the libfsxfs corner of the world, dated July 28, 2022 — go forth and inspect your XFS volumes, periodt 🎀💖