debugfs: add better error checking when printing extended attributes

[tools/e2fsprogs.git] / debugfs / debugfs.8.in

diff --git a/debugfs/debugfs.8.in b/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
index ce70d81..bae14db 100644 (file)
--- a/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
+++ b/debugfs/debugfs.8.in
@@ -346,6 +346,9 @@ showing its tree structure.
 Print a listing of the inodes which use the one or more blocks specified
 on the command line.
 .TP
+.BI inode_dump " filespec"
+Print the contents of the inode data structure in hex and ASCII format.
+.TP
 .BI imap " filespec"
 Print the location of the inode data structure (in the inode table)
 of the inode
@@ -431,6 +434,17 @@ flag will list the files in a format which is more easily parsable by
 scripts, as well as making it more clear when there are spaces or other
 non-printing characters at the end of filenames.
 .TP
+.BI list_deleted_inodes " [limit]"
+List deleted inodes, optionally limited to those deleted within
+.I limit
+seconds ago.  Also available as
+.BR lsdel .
+.IP
+This command was useful for recovering from accidental file deletions
+for ext2 file systems.  Unfortunately, it is not useful for this purpose
+if the files were deleted using ext3 or ext4, since the inode's
+data blocks are no longer available after the inode is released.
+.TP
 .BI modify_inode " filespec"
 Modify the contents of the inode structure in the inode
 .IR filespec .
@@ -479,7 +493,7 @@ is, all of the blocks starting at
 .I start_blk
 through to the end of the file will be deallocated.
 .TP
-.I symlink filespec target
+.BI symlink " filespec target"
 Make a symbolic link.
 .TP
 .B pwd
@@ -489,12 +503,14 @@ Print the current working directory.
 Quit
 .B debugfs
 .TP
-.BI rdump " directory destination"
+.BI rdump " directory[...] destination"
 Recursively dump
-.I directory
+.IR directory ,
+or multiple
+.IR directories ,
 and all its contents (including regular files, symbolic links, and other
 directories) into the named
-.I destination
+.IR destination ,
 which should be an existing directory on the native filesystem.
 .TP
 .BI rm " pathname"