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.
-B Force the use of the older FIBMAP ioctl instead of the FIEMAP
ioctl for testing purposes.
-bblocksize
Use blocksize in bytes, or with [KMG] suffix, up to 1GB 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.
-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.
-P Pre-load the ext4's extent status cache for the file. This
feature is not supported on all kernels, and is only supported
on ext4 file systems. -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.
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E2fsprogs version 1.46-WIP March 2020 FILEFRAG(8)