Re: Where is inode table

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 08:38:02PM +0530, Sumit Rangwala wrote:
> Hello
> 
>         I am using Redhat 5.2 and was trying to read inode table through the
> file /dev/hda3
> I was unable to find out the offset at which the inode table starts.
>         Can anybody help me out.

You need to learn about the super block format of ext2fs. It is in:

linux/include/linux/ext2_fs.h (struct ext2_super_block)

You can chase things from there. Try dumpe2fs /dev/hda3 and look at 
the source code of dumpe2fs to understand the filesystem structure.

	-Arun

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