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NAME
btrfstune - tune various filesystem parameters
SYNOPSIS
btrfstune [options] <dev> [<dev>...]
DESCRIPTION
btrfstune can be used to enable, disable or set various filesystem
parameters. The filesystem must be unmounted.
The common usecase is to enable features that were not enabled at mkfs
time. Please make sure that you have kernel support for the features.
You can find a complete list of features and kernel version of their
introduction at
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#By_feature . Also,
the manual page mkfs.btrfs(8) contains more details about the features.
Some of the features could be enabled on a mounted filesystem. Please
refer to the respective section in btrfs(5).
OPTIONS
-S <0|1>
Enable seeding on a given device. Value 1 will enable seeding, 0
will disable it.
A seeding filesystem is forced to be mounted read-only. A new
device can be added to the filesystem and will capture all writes
keeping the seeding device intact.
-r
(since kernel: 3.7)
Enable extended inode refs (hardlink limit per file in a directory
is 65536), enabled by mkfs feature extref. -x:: (since kernel:
3.10)
Enable skinny metadata extent refs (more efficient representation
of extents), enabled by mkfs feature skinny-metadata.
All newly created extents will use the new representation. To
completely switch the entire filesystem, run a full balance of the
metadata. Please refer to btrfs-balance(8). -n:: (since kernel:
3.14)
Enable no-holes feature (more efficient representation of file
holes), enabled by mkfs feature no-holes. -f:: Allow dangerous
changes, e.g. clear the seeding flag or change fsid. Make sure that
you are aware of the dangers. -u:: Change fsid to a randomly
generated UUID or continue previous fsid change operation in case
it was interrupted. -U <UUID>:: Change fsid to UUID.
The UUID should be a 36 bytes string in printf(3) format
"%08x-%04x-%04x-%04x-%012x". If there is a previous unfinished fsid
change, it will continue only if the UUID matches the unfinished
one or if you use the option -u.
Warning
Cancelling or interrupting a UUID change operation will make the
filesystem temporarily unmountable. To fix it, rerun btrfstune -u
to restore the UUID and let it complete.
Warning
Clearing the seeding flag on a device may be dangerous. If a
previously-seeding device is changed, all filesystems that used
that device will become unmountable. Setting the seeding flag back
will not fix that. A valid usecase is seeding device as a base
image. Clear the seeding flag, update the filesystem and make it
seeding again, provided that it's OK to throw away all filesystems
built on top of the previous base.
EXIT STATUS
btrfstune returns 0 if no error happened, 1 otherwise.
COMPATIBILITY NOTE
This tool exists for historical reasons but is still in use today. The
functionality is about to be merged to the main tool someday and
btrfstune will become deprecated and removed afterwards.
SEE ALSO
btrfs(5), btrfs-balance(8), mkfs.btrfs(8)
Btrfs v4.9.1 08/06/2017 BTRFSTUNE(8)