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authorGoffredo Baroncelli <kreijack@libero.it>2010-12-05 17:47:45 +0000
committerChris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>2011-10-25 09:18:31 -0400
commit87d3875d4e76431a59d37aae34469365169a276e (patch)
treed0e0cbdd6d45026c6e47a2b457087c04d3055732 /INSTALL
parenta418b24318723c0a45fe1f1b76b9286baa36c537 (diff)
Update/clean up btrfs help and man page V2
Hi all, enclose you can find a patch which improves the help of the btrfs commands, updates the INSTALL file and the btrfs (command) man page. Regarding the help of the btrfs command: - moved the "subvolume set-default" command in the "subvolume" commands group - removed a wrong new line - small tweak on the basis of Andreas suggestion Regarding the btrfs command man page: - renaming the command "device balance" in "filesystem balance" (thanks to Andreas Phillipp to highlight that) - adding the entry "subvolume find-new" - document the switches of the command "filesystem defrag" - document the <devid> facility of the command "filesystem resize" - small tweak on the basis of Andreas suggestion Regarding the INSTALL file, which was very old, I removed the reference of the old btrfsctl utility and changed the examples using the btrfs command. I removed the old (and now wrong) statement about the inability to delete a subvolume/snapshot Chris, you can pull the patch from the branch "help_cleanup" of the following repository. http://cassiopea.homelinux.net/git/btrfs-progs-unstable.git (or you can browse the changes at http://cassiopea.homelinux.net/git/btrfs-progs-unstable.git/?p=btrfs- progs-unstable-all.git;a=summary) The patch is very simple: only updates the man page, the INSTALL file and moves/updates some lines in the help of btrfs command. Comments are welcome. Regards G.Baroncelli INSTALL | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- btrfs.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------ man/btrfs.8.in | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) all the block devices. .TP @@ -138,21 +143,21 @@ can expand the partition before enlarging the filesystem and shrink the partition after reducing the size of the filesystem. .TP -\fBfilesystem show\fR [<uuid>|<label>]\fR -Show the btrfs filesystem with some additional info. If no UUID or label is -passed, \fBbtrfs\fR show info of all the btrfs filesystem. +\fBfilesystem show\fR [<device>|<uuid>|<label>]\fR +Show the btrfs filesystem with some additional info. If no argument is +passed, \fBbtrfs\fR shows info of all the btrfs filesystems. .TP -\fBdevice balance\fR \fI<path>\fR +\fBfilesystem balance\fR \fI<path>\fR Balance the chunks of the filesystem identified by \fI<path>\fR across the devices. .TP -\fBdevice add\fR\fI <dev> [<dev>..] <path>\fR +\fBdevice add\fR\fI <device> [<device>...] <path>\fR Add device(s) to the filesystem identified by \fI<path>\fR. .TP -\fBdevice delete\fR\fI <dev> [<dev>..] <path>\fR +\fBdevice delete\fR\fI <device> [<device>...] <path>\fR Remove device(s) from a filesystem identified by \fI<path>\fR. .PP Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 16b45a56..38401481 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -22,23 +22,32 @@ in the e2fsprogs sources, and is usually available as libuuid or
e2fsprogs-devel from various distros.
Building the utilities is just make ; make install. The programs go
-into /usr/local/bin. The commands available are:
+into /usr/local/bin. The mains commands available are:
mkfs.btrfs: create a filesystem
-btrfsctl: control program to create snapshots and subvolumes:
-
+btrfs: control program to create snapshots and subvolumes:
+ # mount a btrfs filesystem
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
- btrfsctl -s new_subvol_name /mnt
- btrfsctl -s snapshot_of_default /mnt/default
- btrfsctl -s snapshot_of_new_subvol /mnt/new_subvol_name
- btrfsctl -s snapshot_of_a_snapshot /mnt/snapshot_of_new_subvol
+
+ # create a subvolume
+ btrfs subvolume create /mnt/new_subvol_name
+
+ # snapshot of a subvolume
+ btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/default /mnt/snapshot_of_default
+ btrfs subvolume snapshot /mnt/snapshot_of_default \
+ /mnt/snapshot_of_a_snapshot
+
+ # list of the subvolumes
ls /mnt
default snapshot_of_a_snapshot snapshot_of_new_subvol
new_subvol_name snapshot_of_default
- Snapshots and subvolumes cannot be deleted right now, but you can
- rm -rf all the files and directories inside them.
+ # removal of a subvolume or a snapshot
+ btrfs subvolume delete /mn/snapshot_of_a_snapshot
+
+ # look a the btrfs man page for further information
+ man btrfs
btrfsck: do a limited check of the FS extent trees.</li>
@@ -46,3 +55,5 @@ debug-tree: print all of the FS metadata in text form. Example:
debug-tree /dev/sda2 >& big_output_file
+
+