Você pode usar a ferramenta "debugfs" para visualizar as informações do arquivo na linha de comando ou no interactivley. use:
# debugfs /dev/<spartition>
# stat /path/to/file
ou
# debugfs -R "stat /path/to/file" /dev/<partition>
por exemplo:
# debugfs -R "stat /etc/passwd" /dev/sda5
Inode: 435914 Type: regular Mode: 0644 Flags: 0x0
Generation: 979004472 Version: 0x00000000
User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 1577
File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0
Links: 1 Blockcount: 8
Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0
ctime: 0x4a2d6f78 -- Mon Jun 8 23:07:20 2009
atime: 0x4a2d6f79 -- Mon Jun 8 23:07:21 2009
mtime: 0x4a2d6f78 -- Mon Jun 8 23:07:20 2009
Size of extra inode fields: 4
BLOCKS:
(0):1767438
TOTAL: 1