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@@ -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 + + |