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NAME

       btrfs-device - manage devices of btrfs filesystems

SYNOPSIS

       btrfs device <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION

       The btrfs device command group is used to manage devices of the btrfs filesystems.

DEVICE MANAGEMENT

SUBCOMMAND

       add [-Kf] <device> [<device>...] <path>
              Add device(s) to the filesystem identified by path.

              If applicable, a whole device discard (TRIM) operation is performed prior to adding
              the device. A device with existing filesystem detected  by  blkid(8)  will  prevent
              device  addition  and  has  to be forced. Alternatively the filesystem can be wiped
              from the device using e.g. the wipefs(8) tool.

              The operation is instant and does not affect existing data.  The  operation  merely
              adds the device to the filesystem structures and creates some block groups headers.

              Options

              -K|--nodiscard
                     do not perform discard (TRIM) by default

              -f|--force
                     force overwrite of existing filesystem on the given disk(s)

              --enqueue
                     wait if there's another exclusive operation running, otherwise continue

       remove [options] <device>|<devid> [<device>|<devid>...] <path>
              Remove device(s) from a filesystem identified by <path>

              Device  removal  must satisfy the profile constraints, otherwise the command fails.
              The filesystem must be converted to profile(s) that would allow the  removal.  This
              can  typically  happen  when  going  down  from  2 devices to 1 and using the RAID1
              profile. See the section TYPICAL USECASES.

              The operation can take long as it needs to move all data from the device.

              It is possible to delete the device that was used  to  mount  the  filesystem.  The
              device  entry  in  the mount table will be replaced by another device name with the
              lowest device id.

              If the filesystem is mounted in degraded mode (-o degraded), special  term  missing
              can  be  used  for  device. In that case, the first device that is described by the
              filesystem metadata, but not present at the mount time will be removed.

              NOTE:
                 In most cases, there is only one missing  device  in  degraded  mode,  otherwise
                 mount  fails. If there are two or more devices missing (e.g. possible in RAID6),
                 you need specify missing as many times as  the  number  of  missing  devices  to
                 remove all of them.

              Options

              --enqueue
                     wait if there's another exclusive operation running, otherwise continue

       delete <device>|<devid> [<device>|<devid>...] <path>
              Alias of remove kept for backward compatibility

       replace <command> [options] <path>
              Alias of whole command group btrfs replace for convenience. See btrfs-replace(8).

       ready <device>
              Wait  until  all devices of a multiple-device filesystem are scanned and registered
              within the kernel module. This  is  to  provide  a  way  for  automatic  filesystem
              mounting  tools  to wait before the mount can start. The device scan is only one of
              the preconditions and the mount can fail for other reasons.  Normal  users  usually
              do not need this command and may safely ignore it.

       scan [options] [<device> [<device>...]]
              Scan devices for a btrfs filesystem and register them with the kernel module.  This
              allows mounting multiple-device filesystem by specifying just one  from  the  whole
              group.

              If no devices are passed, all block devices that blkid reports to contain btrfs are
              scanned.

              The options --all-devices or -d can be used as a fallback  in  case  blkid  is  not
              available.  If used, behavior is the same as if no devices are passed.

              The command can be run repeatedly. Devices that have been already registered remain
              as such. Reloading the  kernel  module  will  drop  this  information.  There's  an
              alternative  way  of mounting multiple-device filesystem without the need for prior
              scanning. See the mount option device.

              Options

              -d|--all-devices
                     Enumerate and register all devices, use as a fallback in case blkid  is  not
                     available.

              -u|--forget
                     Unregister  a  given  device  or  all stale devices if no path is given, the
                     device must be unmounted otherwise it's an error.

       stats [options] <path>|<device>
              Read and print the device  IO  error  statistics  for  all  devices  of  the  given
              filesystem  identified  by  path  or  for  a single device>. The filesystem must be
              mounted.  See section  *DEVICE  STATS  for  more  information  about  the  reported
              statistics and the meaning.

              Options

              -z|--reset
                     Print the stats and reset the values to zero afterwards.

              -c|--check
                     Check  if the stats are all zeros and return 0 if it is so. Set bit 6 of the
                     return code if any of the statistics is no-zero. The error values is  65  if
                     reading stats from at least one device failed, otherwise it's 64.

              -T     Print stats in a tabular form, devices as rows and stats as columns

       usage [options] <path> [<path>...]::
              Show detailed information about internal allocations on devices.

              The  level  of  detail can differ if the command is run under a regular or the root
              user (due to use of restricted ioctls). The first example below is for normal  user
              (warning included) and the next one with root on the same filesystem:

                 WARNING: cannot read detailed chunk info, per-device usage will not be shown, run as root
                 /dev/sdc1, ID: 1
                    Device size:           931.51GiB
                    Device slack:              0.00B
                    Unallocated:           931.51GiB

                 /dev/sdc1, ID: 1
                    Device size:           931.51GiB
                    Device slack:              0.00B
                    Data,single:           641.00GiB
                    Data,RAID0/3:            1.00GiB
                    Metadata,single:        19.00GiB
                    System,single:          32.00MiB
                    Unallocated:           271.48GiB

              • Device  size  --  size  of the device as seen by the filesystem (may be different
                than actual device size)

              • Device slack -- portion of device not used by the filesystem but still  available
                in the physical space provided by the device, e.g.  after a device shrink

              • Data,single,  Metadata,single,  System,single  -- in general, list of block group
                type (Data, Metadata, System) and profile (single, RAID1, ...) allocated  on  the
                device

              • Data,RAID0/3 -- in particular, striped profiles RAID0/RAID10/RAID5/RAID6 with the
                number of devices on which the stripes are allocated, multiple occurrences of the
                same profile can appear in case a new device has been added and all new available
                stripes have been used for writes

              • Unallocated -- remaining space that the filesystem can still use  for  new  block
                groups

              Options

              -b|--raw
                     raw numbers in bytes, without the B suffix

              -h|--human-readable
                     print human friendly numbers, base 1024, this is the default

              -H     print human friendly numbers, base 1000

              --iec  select  the  1024  base  for  the  following  options,  according to the IEC
                     standard

              --si   select the 1000 base for the following options, according to the SI standard

              -k|--kbytes
                     show sizes in KiB, or kB with --si

              -m|--mbytes
                     show sizes in MiB, or MB with --si

              -g|--gbytes
                     show sizes in GiB, or GB with --si

              -t|--tbytes
                     show sizes in TiB, or TB with --si

              If conflicting options are passed, the last one takes precedence.

DEVICE STATS

       The device stats keep persistent record of several error classes related to doing IO.  The
       current  values are printed at mount time and updated during filesystem lifetime or from a
       scrub run.

          $ btrfs device stats /dev/sda3
          [/dev/sda3].write_io_errs   0
          [/dev/sda3].read_io_errs    0
          [/dev/sda3].flush_io_errs   0
          [/dev/sda3].corruption_errs 0
          [/dev/sda3].generation_errs 0

       write_io_errs
              Failed writes to the block devices, means that the layers  beneath  the  filesystem
              were not able to satisfy the write request.

       read_io_errors
              Read request analogy to write_io_errs.

       flush_io_errs
              Number  of  failed  writes  with  the  FLUSH  flag set. The flushing is a method of
              forcing a particular order between write requests and is crucial  for  implementing
              crash  consistency.  In  case of btrfs, all the metadata blocks must be permanently
              stored on the block device before the superblock is written.

       corruption_errs
              A block checksum mismatched or a corrupted metadata header was found.

       generation_errs
              The block generation does not match the expected value (e.g. stored in  the  parent
              node).

       Since   kernel   5.14   the   device   stats   are  also  available  in  textual  form  in
       /sys/fs/btrfs/FSID/devinfo/DEVID/error_stats.

EXIT STATUS

       btrfs device returns a zero exit status if it succeeds. Non zero is returned  in  case  of
       failure.

       If  the -c option is used, btrfs device stats will add 64 to the exit status if any of the
       error counters is non-zero.

AVAILABILITY

       btrfs   is   part   of   btrfs-progs.    Please   refer   to    the    documentation    at
       https://btrfs.readthedocs.io or wiki http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for further information.

SEE ALSO

       btrfs-balance(8) btrfs-device(8), btrfs-replace(8), mkfs.btrfs(8),