---
name: "istat"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sleuthkit"
version: "4.15.0-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/istat"
---

# istat(1)

Display details of a meta-data structure (i.e. inode)

## NAME

istat - Display details of a meta-data structure (i.e. inode)

## SYNOPSIS

**istat \[-B** *num* **\] \[-f** *fstype* **\] \[-i imgtype\] \[-o imgoffset\] \[-b dev\_sector\_size\] \[-vV\] \[-z** *zone* **\] \[-s** *seconds* **\]** *image \[images\] inode*

## DESCRIPTION

**istat** displays the uid, gid, mode, size, link number, modified, accessed,  changed times, and all the disk units a structure has allocated.

The options are as follows:

- \-B num

  Display the addresses of num disk units.  Useful when the inode is  unallocated with size 0, but still has block pointers.

- \-f fstype

  Specify the file system type.   Use '-f list' to list the supported file system types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.

- \-s seconds

  The time skew of the original system in seconds.  For example, if the original system was 100 seconds slow, this value would be -100.

- \-i imgtype

  Identify the type of image file, such as raw. Use '-i list' to list the supported types. If not given, autodetection methods are used.

- \-o imgoffset

  The sector offset where the file system starts in the image.

- \-b dev\_sector\_size

  The size, in bytes, of the underlying device sectors.  If not given, the value in the image format is used (if it exists) or 512-bytes is assumed.

- \-v

  Verbose output of debugging statements to stderr

- \-V

  Display version

- \-z zone

  An ASCII string of the original system's time zone.  For example, EST5EDT or GMT.  These strings are defined by the operating system and may vary.  NOTE: This has changed since TCTUTILs.

- image \[images\]

  The disk or partition image to read, whose format is given with '-i'. Multiple image file names can be given if the image is split into multiple segments. If only one image file is given, and its name is the first in a sequence (e.g., as indicated by ending in '.001'), subsequent image segments will be included automatically.

- inode

  Meta-data number to display stats on

## AUTHOR

Brian Carrier \<carrier at sleuthkit dot org\>

Send documentation updates to \<doc-updates at sleuthkit dot org\>