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diff --git a/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc b/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc index e246603c..f12e9490 100644 --- a/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/btrfs-receive.asciidoc @@ -9,12 +9,19 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- *btrfs receive* [options] <path> +or + +*btrfs receive* --dump [options] + DESCRIPTION ----------- Receive a stream of changes and replicate one or more subvolumes that were previously used with *btrfs send* The received subvolumes are stored to -'path'. +'path', if '--dump' option is not given. + +If '--dump' option is given, *btrfs receive* will only do the validation of +the stream, and print the stream metadata. *btrfs receive* will fail int the following cases: @@ -56,6 +63,12 @@ By default the mountpoint is searched in '/proc/self/mounts'. If you do not have '/proc', eg. in a chroot environment, use this option to tell us where this filesystem is mounted. +--dump:: +print the stream metadata ++ +Does not accept the 'path' parameter. So with this option, *btrfs receive* won't +modify your filesystem, and can be run by non-privileged users. + EXIT STATUS ----------- *btrfs receive* returns a zero exit status if it succeeds. Non zero is |