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Manual page and help for the btrfs-select-super linux command. The btrfs-select-super command permanently overwrites all instances of the superblock with the specified copy. This helps in some cases, such as when a write operation has failed due to a power failure and not all superblocks have been written out, or if the primary superblock has been damaged, e.g. by accidental overwriting, etc.
Man page output
man btrfs-select-super
BTRFS-SELECT-SUPER(8) Btrfs Manual BTRFS-SELECT-SUPER(8) NAME btrfs-select-super - overwrite primary superblock with a backup copy SYNOPSIS btrfs-select-super -s number <device> DESCRIPTION Destructively overwrite all copies of the superblock with a specified copy. This helps in certain cases, for example when write barriers were disabled during a power failure and not all superblocks were written, or if the primary superblock is damaged, eg. accidentally overwritten. The filesystem specified by device must not be mounted. Note Prior to overwriting the primary superblock, please make sure that the backup copies are valid! To dump a superblock use the btrfs inspect-internal dump-super command. Then run the check (in the non-repair mode) using the command btrfs check -s where -s specifies the superblock copy to use. Superblock copies exist in the following offsets on the device: • primary: 64KiB (65536) • 1st copy: 64MiB (67108864) • 2nd copy: 256GiB (274877906944) A superblock size is 4KiB (4096). OPTIONS -s|--super <superblock> use 'superblock’th superblock copy, valid values are 0 1 or 2 if the respective superblock offset is within the device size SEE ALSO btrfs-inspect-internal(8), btrfsck check(8) Btrfs v4.20.1 01/23/2019 BTRFS-SELECT-SUPER(8)
Help output
sudo btrfs-select-super --help
usage: btrfs-map-logical [options] device -l Logical extent to map -c Copy of the extent to read (usually 1 or 2) -o Output file to hold the extent -b Number of bytes to read
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