vadi@gooseberry:~$ tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 tune2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) tune2fs: Permission denied while trying to open /dev/sda1 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. vadi@gooseberry:~$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 tune2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011) Filesystem volume name: Last mounted on: / Filesystem UUID: 20aa0109-67bb-46a0-95c6-626f0f0487eb Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 6807552 Block count: 27228928 Reserved block count: 1361446 Free blocks: 2430490 Free inodes: 6379403 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 1017 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 8192 Inode blocks per group: 512 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Sat Mar 24 04:28:52 2012 Last mount time: Fri May 18 07:38:12 2012 Last write time: Tue May 1 08:51:10 2012 Mount count: 9 Maximum mount count: 37 Last checked: Tue May 1 08:51:10 2012 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Sun Oct 28 08:51:10 2012 Lifetime writes: 353 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 256 Required extra isize: 28 Desired extra isize: 28 Journal inode: 8 First orphan inode: 5821341 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: a2d423c6-0d65-4b96-b3c9-482c1ba073a5 Journal backup: inode blocks vadi@gooseberry:~$