btrfs-search-metadata

BTRFS-SEARCH-METADATA(1) Btrfs Search Metadata BTRFS-SEARCH-METADATA(1)

NAME

   btrfs-search-metadata - lookup btrfs metadata

SYNOPSIS

   btrfs-search-metadata <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION

   The btrfs-search-metadata program can be used to execute search queries in order to look up metadata items of an online, mounted btrfs filesystem.  Unlike
   the btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree command, which directly reads from disk, btrfs-search-metadata only uses the kernel SEARCH ioctl function.

   Besides being able to get any metadata slice from any tree, there are a number of convenience presets that execute predefined search queries.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

   -h, --help
          Show the built-in help message and exit.

   --format keys|short|long
          Print metadata items as keys only, as a short single line per item (default), or long output with full contents of all fields.

SUBCOMMANDS

   chunks <path>
       Display all chunk items from the chunk tree, as well as the stripe items that they contain.

   block_groups <path>
       Display all block group items from the extent tree.

   dev_extents <path>
       Display all device extent items from the device tree.

   file <path>
       Display all information btrfs knows about a file or directory.

   inode -t|--tree <tree> --inum <inum> <path>
       Display all information about an inode number in a subvolume tree.

   devices <path>
       Display all device items from the device tree.

   orphans <path>
       Display all orphan items from the root tree.

   dump -t|--tree <tree> [--min-key <MIN_KEY>] [--max-key <MAX_KEY>] <path>
       Dump an arbitrary slice of metadata items from any tree. A key should be specified in the regular form as '(<objectid> <type> <offset>)', e.g.
       '(EXTENT_TREE ROOT_ITEM 0)'. The number -1 can be used instead of the maximum value for a field. This can be very useful when dumping all metadata items
       for a specific objectid. For example, what the inode subcommand does is searching with min-key '(<inum> 0 0)' and max-key '(<inum> -1 -1)'

   block_group_contents --vaddr <vaddr> <path>
       Dump the contents of a block group (from the extent tree) from the specified virtual address of the start of the block group to its end. Use the
       block_groups subcommand to list block group addresses.

   block_group_free_space --vaddr <vaddr> <path>
       Dump the free space extents for a block group (from the free space tree) for the block group at the specified virtual address. Use the block_groups
       subcommand to list block group addresses.