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Documentation: filesystems: update btrfs tools section
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The tools mentioned have been obsoleted long ago, replace
with the current ones.

CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
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kdave authored and Chris Mason committed Nov 21, 2013
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These include the following tools:

mkfs.btrfs: create a filesystem
* mkfs.btrfs: create a filesystem

btrfsctl: control program to create snapshots and subvolumes:
* btrfs: a single tool to manage the filesystems, refer to the manpage for more details

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
ls /mnt
default snapshot_of_a_snapshot snapshot_of_new_subvol
new_subvol_name snapshot_of_default
* 'btrfsck' or 'btrfs check': do a consistency check of the filesystem

Snapshots and subvolumes cannot be deleted right now, but you can
rm -rf all the files and directories inside them.
Other tools for specific tasks:

btrfsck: do a limited check of the FS extent trees.
* btrfs-convert: in-place conversion from ext2/3/4 filesystems

btrfs-debug-tree: print all of the FS metadata in text form. Example:

btrfs-debug-tree /dev/sda2 >& big_output_file
* btrfs-image: dump filesystem metadata for debugging

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