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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 /man
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/btrfs.8.in29
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/btrfs.8.in b/man/btrfs.8.in
index 1ffed135..b9b89130 100644
--- a/man/btrfs.8.in
+++ b/man/btrfs.8.in
@@ -21,15 +21,19 @@ btrfs \- control a btrfs filesystem
.PP
\fBbtrfs\fP \fBfilesystem defrag\fP\fI [options] <file>|<dir> [<file>|<dir>...]\fP
.PP
-\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice scan\fP\fI [<device> [<device>..]]\fP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBsubvolume find-new\fP\fI <subvolume> <last_gen>\fP
.PP
-\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice show\fP\fI <dev>|<label> [<dev>|<label>...]\fP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBfilesystem balance\fP\fI <path> \fP
.PP
-\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice balance\fP\fI <path> \fP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBfilesystem defragment\fP\fI <file>|<dir> [<file>|<dir>...]\fP
.PP
-\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice add\fP\fI <dev> [<dev>..] <path> \fP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice scan\fP\fI [<device>...]\fP
.PP
-\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice delete\fP\fI <dev> [<dev>..] <path> \fP]
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice show\fP\fI [<device>|<uuid>|<label>]\fP
+.PP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice add\fP\fI <device> [<device>...] <path> \fP
+.PP
+\fBbtrfs\fP \fBdevice delete\fP\fI <device> [<device>...] <path> \fP]
.PP
\fBbtrfs\fP \fBhelp|\-\-help|\-h \fP\fI\fP
.PP
@@ -48,17 +52,16 @@ For example: it is possible to run
instead of
.I btrfs subvolume snapshot.
But
-.I btrfs dev s
+.I btrfs file s
is not allowed, because
-.I dev s
+.I file s
may be interpreted both as
-.I device show
+.I filesystem show
and as
-.I device scan.
+.I filesystem sync.
In this case
.I btrfs
-returns an error.
-
+returnsfilesystem sync
If a command is terminated by
.I --help
, the detailed help is showed. If the passed command matches more commands,
@@ -125,9 +128,11 @@ The start position and the number of bytes to deframention can be specified by \
NOTE: defragmenting with kernels up to 2.6.37 will unlink COW-ed copies of data, don't
use it if you use snapshots, have de-duplicated your data or made copies with
\fBcp --reflink\fP.
+\fBsubvolume find-new\fR\fI <subvolume> <last_gen>\fR
+List the recently modified files in a subvolume, after \fI<last_gen>\fR ID.
.TP
-\fBdevice scan\fR \fI[<device> [<device>..]]\fR
+\fBdevice scan\fR \fI[<device>...]\fR
Scan devices for a btrfs filesystem. If no devices are passed, \fBbtrfs\fR scans
all the block devices.
.TP