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-rw-r--r--cmds-filesystem.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmds-filesystem.c b/cmds-filesystem.c
index c39f2d15..46aa4973 100644
--- a/cmds-filesystem.c
+++ b/cmds-filesystem.c
@@ -893,6 +893,11 @@ static const char * const cmd_filesystem_defrag_usage[] = {
"-s start defragment only from byte onward",
"-l len defragment only up to len bytes",
"-t size target extent size hint (default: 32M)",
+ "",
+ "Warning: most Linux kernels will break up the ref-links of COW data",
+ "(e.g., files copied with 'cp --reflink', snapshots) which may cause",
+ "considerable increase of space usage. See btrfs-filesystem(8) for",
+ "more information.",
NULL
};