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Manual page and help for the btrfs-inspect-internal linux command. This command group provides an interface for querying internal information. The functionality ranges from a simple user interface to ioctl or a more complex query that compiles the result from multiple internal structures. The latter usually requires calls to privileged ioctls.

 

 

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man btrfs-inspect-internal
BTRFS-INSPECT-INTE(8)                   Btrfs Manual                   BTRFS-INSPECT-INTE(8)

NAME
       btrfs-inspect-internal - query various internal information

SYNOPSIS
       btrfs inspect-internal <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION
       This command group provides an interface to query internal information. The
       functionality ranges from a simple UI to an ioctl or a more complex query that
       assembles the result from several internal structures. The latter usually requires
       calls to privileged ioctls.

SUBCOMMAND
       dump-super [options] <device> [device...]
           (replaces the standalone tool btrfs-show-super)

           Show btrfs superblock information stored on given devices in textual form. By
           default the first superblock is printed, more details about all copies or
           additional backup data can be printed.

           Besides verification of the filesystem signature, there are no other sanity
           checks. The superblock checksum status is reported, the device item and
           filesystem UUIDs are checked and reported.

               Note
               the meaning of option -s has changed in version 4.8 to be consistent with
               other tools to specify superblock copy rather the offset. The old way still
               works, but prints a warning. Please update your scripts to use --bytenr
               instead. The option -i has been deprecated.
           Options

           -f|--full
               print full superblock information, including the system chunk array and
               backup roots

           -a|--all
               print information about all present superblock copies (cannot be used
               together with -s option)

           -i <super>
               (deprecated since 4.8, same behaviour as --super)

           --bytenr <bytenr>
               specify offset to a superblock in a non-standard location at bytenr, useful
               for debugging (disables the -f option)

               If there are multiple options specified, only the last one applies.

           -F|--force
               attempt to print the superblock even if a valid BTRFS signature is not found;
               the result may be completely wrong if the data does not resemble a superblock

           -s|--super <bytenr>
               (see compatibility note above)

               specify which mirror to print, valid values are 0, 1 and 2 and the superblock
               must be present on the device with a valid signature, can be used together
               with --force

       dump-tree [options] <device>
           (replaces the standalone tool btrfs-debug-tree)

           Dump tree structures from a given device in textual form, expand keys to human
           readable equivalents where possible. This is useful for analyzing filesystem
           state or inconsistencies and has a positive educational effect on understanding
           the internal filesystem structure.

               Note
               contains file names, consider that if you’re asked to send the dump for
               analysis. Does not contain file data.
           Options

           -e|--extents
               print only extent-related information: extent and device trees

           -d|--device
               print only device-related information: tree root, chunk and device trees

           -r|--roots
               print only short root node information, ie. the root tree keys

           -R|--backups
               same as --roots plus print backup root info, ie. the backup root keys and the
               respective tree root block offset

           -u|--uuid
               print only the uuid tree information, empty output if the tree does not exist

           -b <block_num>
               print info of the specified block only

           --follow
               use with -b, print all children tree blocks of <block_num>

           --dfs
               use depth-first search to print trees. (default) the nodes and leaves are
               intermixed in the output

           --bfs
               use breadth-first search to print trees. the nodes are printed before all
               leaves

           -t <tree_id>
               print only the tree with the specified ID, where the ID can be numerical or
               common name in a flexible human readable form

               The tree id name recognition rules:

               •   case does not matter

               •   the C source definition, eg. BTRFS_ROOT_TREE_OBJECTID

               •   short forms without BTRFS_ prefix, without _TREE and _OBJECTID suffix,
                   eg. ROOT_TREE, ROOT

               •   convenience aliases, eg. DEVICE for the DEV tree, CHECKSUM for CSUM

               •   unrecognized ID is an error

       inode-resolve [-v] <ino> <path>
           (needs root privileges)

           resolve paths to all files with given inode number ino in a given subvolume at
           path, ie. all hardlinks

           Options

           -v
               verbose mode, print count of returned paths and ioctl() return value

       logical-resolve [-Pv] [-s <bufsize>] <logical> <path>
           (needs root privileges)

           resolve paths to all files at given logical address in the linear filesystem
           space

           Options

           -P
               skip the path resolving and print the inodes instead

           -v
               verbose mode, print count of returned paths and all ioctl() return values

           -s <bufsize>
               set internal buffer for storing the file names to bufsize, default is 4096,
               maximum 64k

       min-dev-size [options] <path>
           (needs root privileges)

           return the minimum size the device can be shrunk to, without performing any
           resize operation, this may be useful before executing the actual resize operation

           Options

           --id <id>
               specify the device id to query, default is 1 if this option is not used

       rootid <path>
           for a given file or directory, return the containing tree root id, but for a
           subvolume itself return its own tree id (ie. subvol id)

               Note
               The result is undefined for the so-called empty subvolumes (identified by
               inode number 2), but such a subvolume does not contain any files anyway

       subvolid-resolve <subvolid> <path>
           (needs root privileges)

           resolve the absolute path of the subvolume id subvolid

       tree-stats [options] <device>
           (needs root privileges)

           Print sizes and statistics of trees.

           Options

           -b
               Print raw numbers in bytes.

EXIT STATUS
       btrfs inspect-internal returns a zero exit status if it succeeds. Non zero is
       returned in case of failure.

AVAILABILITY
       btrfs is part of btrfs-progs. Please refer to the btrfs wiki
       http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for further details.

SEE ALSO
       mkfs.btrfs(8)

Btrfs v4.20.1                            01/23/2019                    BTRFS-INSPECT-INTE(8)

 

 

Help output

sudo btrfs inspect-internal
usage: btrfs inspect-internal <command> <args>

    btrfs inspect-internal inode-resolve [-v] <inode> <path>
        Get file system paths for the given inode
    btrfs inspect-internal logical-resolve [-Pv] [-s bufsize] <logical> <path>
        Get file system paths for the given logical address
    btrfs inspect-internal subvolid-resolve <subvolid> <path>
        Get file system paths for the given subvolume ID.
    btrfs inspect-internal rootid <path>
        Get tree ID of the containing subvolume of path.
    btrfs inspect-internal min-dev-size [options] <path>
        Get the minimum size the device can be shrunk to. The
    btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree [options] device
        Dump tree structures from a given device
    btrfs inspect-internal dump-super [options] device [device...]
        Dump superblock from a device in a textual form
    btrfs inspect-internal tree-stats [options] <device>
        Print various stats for trees

query various internal information

 

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