diff --git a/include/dwarfs/fstypes.h b/include/dwarfs/fstypes.h
index d5bc053e..fe7f5f23 100644
--- a/include/dwarfs/fstypes.h
+++ b/include/dwarfs/fstypes.h
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <cstdint>
 #include <iosfwd>
+#include <optional>
 #include <string>
+#include <vector>
 
 #include "dwarfs/block_compressor.h" // TODO: or the other way round?
 #include "dwarfs/checksum.h"
@@ -90,6 +92,8 @@ struct filesystem_info {
   uint64_t uncompressed_metadata_size{0};
   bool uncompressed_block_size_is_estimate{false};
   bool uncompressed_metadata_size_is_estimate{false};
+  std::vector<size_t> compressed_block_sizes;
+  std::vector<std::optional<size_t>> uncompressed_block_sizes;
 };
 
 bool is_known_compression_type(compression_type type);
diff --git a/src/dwarfs/filesystem_v2.cpp b/src/dwarfs/filesystem_v2.cpp
index 60ae6e61..0cac3cb9 100644
--- a/src/dwarfs/filesystem_v2.cpp
+++ b/src/dwarfs/filesystem_v2.cpp
@@ -443,19 +443,22 @@ filesystem_info const& filesystem_<LoggerPolicy>::get_info() const {
       if (s->type() == section_type::BLOCK) {
         ++info.block_count;
         info.compressed_block_size += s->length();
+        info.compressed_block_sizes.push_back(s->length());
         try {
-          info.uncompressed_block_size +=
-              get_uncompressed_section_size(mm_, *s);
-        } catch (std::exception const& e) {
+          auto uncompressed_size = get_uncompressed_section_size(mm_, *s);
+          info.uncompressed_block_size += uncompressed_size;
+          info.uncompressed_block_sizes.push_back(uncompressed_size);
+        } catch (std::exception const&) {
           info.uncompressed_block_size += s->length();
           info.uncompressed_block_size_is_estimate = true;
+          info.uncompressed_block_sizes.push_back(std::nullopt);
         }
       } else if (s->type() == section_type::METADATA_V2) {
         info.compressed_metadata_size += s->length();
         try {
           info.uncompressed_metadata_size +=
               get_uncompressed_section_size(mm_, *s);
-        } catch (std::exception const& e) {
+        } catch (std::exception const&) {
           info.uncompressed_metadata_size += s->length();
           info.uncompressed_metadata_size_is_estimate = true;
         }
diff --git a/src/dwarfs/metadata_v2.cpp b/src/dwarfs/metadata_v2.cpp
index 11642e21..59a30f38 100644
--- a/src/dwarfs/metadata_v2.cpp
+++ b/src/dwarfs/metadata_v2.cpp
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 #include <fmt/format.h>
 
+#include <folly/container/Enumerate.h>
 #include <folly/container/F14Set.h>
 #include <folly/portability/Stdlib.h>
 #include <folly/portability/Unistd.h>
@@ -990,6 +991,43 @@ void metadata_<LoggerPolicy>::dump(
     }
   }
 
+  if (meta_.block_categories()) {
+    auto const& catnames = *meta_.category_names();
+    struct category_info {
+      size_t count{0};
+      size_t compressed_size{0};
+      size_t uncompressed_size{0};
+      bool uncompressed_size_is_estimate{false};
+    };
+    std::map<size_t, category_info> catinfo;
+    for (auto [block, category] : folly::enumerate(*meta_.block_categories())) {
+      auto& ci = catinfo[category];
+      ++ci.count;
+      ci.compressed_size += fsinfo.compressed_block_sizes.at(block);
+      if (auto size = fsinfo.uncompressed_block_sizes.at(block)) {
+        ci.uncompressed_size += *size;
+      } else {
+        ci.uncompressed_size_is_estimate = true;
+      }
+    }
+    os << "categories:\n";
+    for (auto const& [category, ci] : catinfo) {
+      os << "  " << catnames[category] << ": " << ci.count << " blocks";
+      if (ci.uncompressed_size_is_estimate ||
+          ci.uncompressed_size != ci.compressed_size) {
+        os << ", " << size_with_unit(ci.compressed_size) << " compressed";
+      }
+      if (!ci.uncompressed_size_is_estimate) {
+        os << ", " << size_with_unit(ci.uncompressed_size) << " uncompressed";
+        if (ci.uncompressed_size != ci.compressed_size) {
+          os << fmt::format(" ({0:.2f}%)", (100.0 * ci.compressed_size) /
+                                               ci.uncompressed_size);
+        }
+      }
+      os << "\n";
+    }
+  }
+
   if (detail_level > 1) {
     analyze_frozen(os, meta_, data_.size(), detail_level);
   }