btrfs-replace

BTRFS-REPLACE(8) BTRFS BTRFS-REPLACE(8)

NAME

   btrfs-replace - replace devices managed by btrfs with other device

SYNOPSIS

   btrfs replace <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION

   btrfs replace is used to replace btrfs managed devices with other device.

SUBCOMMAND

   cancel <mount_point>
          Cancel a running device replace operation.

   start [options] <srcdev>|<devid> <targetdev> <path>
          Replace device of a btrfs filesystem.

          On  a  live filesystem, duplicate the data to the target device which is currently stored on the source device.  If the source device is not available anymore, or if the -r op‐
          tion is set, the data is built only using the RAID redundancy mechanisms.  After completion of the operation, the source device is removed from the filesystem.  If  the  srcdev
          is  a numerical value, it is assumed to be the device id of the filesystem which is mounted at path, otherwise it is the path to the source device. If the source device is dis‐
          connected, from the system, you have to use the devid parameter format.  The targetdev needs to be same size or larger than the srcdev.

          NOTE:
             The filesystem has to be resized to fully take advantage of a larger target device; this can be achieved with btrfs filesystem resize <devid>:max /path

          Options

          -r     only read from srcdev if no other zero-defect mirror exists.  (enable this if your drive has lots of read errors, the access would be very slow)

          -f     force using and overwriting targetdev even if it looks like it contains a valid btrfs filesystem.

                 A valid filesystem is assumed if a btrfs superblock is found which contains a correct checksum. Devices that are currently mounted are never allowed to be  used  as  the
                 targetdev.

          -B     no background replace.

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

          -K|--nodiscard
                 Do  not perform whole device TRIM operation on devices that are capable of that.  This does not affect discard/trim operation when the filesystem is mounted.  Please see
                 the mount option discard for that in btrfs(5).

   status [-1] <mount_point>
          Print status and progress information of a running device replace operation.

          Options

          -1     print once instead of print continuously until the replace operation finishes (or is cancelled)

EXAMPLES Replacing an online drive with a bigger one

   Given the following filesystem mounted at /mnt/my-vault

      Label: 'MyVault'  uuid: ae20903e-b72d-49ba-b944-901fc6d888a1
              Total devices 2 FS bytes used 1TiB
              devid    1 size 1TiB used 500.00GiB path /dev/sda
              devid    2 size 1TiB used 500.00GiB path /dev/sdb

   In order to replace /dev/sda (devid 1) with a bigger drive located at /dev/sdc you would run the following:

      btrfs replace start 1 /dev/sdc /mnt/my-vault/

   You can monitor progress via:

      btrfs replace status /mnt/my-vault/

   After the replacement is complete, as per the docs at btrfs-filesystem(8) in order to use the entire storage space of the new drive you need to run:

      btrfs filesystem resize 1:max /mnt/my-vault/

EXIT STATUS

   btrfs replace 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 documentation at https://btrfs.readthedocs.io.