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BTRFS-QGROUP(8)                                      Btrfs Manual                                     BTRFS-QGROUP(8)



NAME
       btrfs-qgroup - control the quota group of a btrfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS
       btrfs qgroup <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION
       btrfs qgroup is used to control quota group (qgroup) of a btrfs filesystem.

           Note
           To use qgroup you need to enable quota first using btrfs quota enable command.

           Warning
           Qgroup is not stable yet and will impact performance in current mainline kernel (v3.14 so far).

QGROUP
       Quota groups or qgroup in btrfs make a tree hierarchy, the leaf qgroups are attached to subvolumes. The size
       limits are set per qgroup and apply when any limit is reached in tree that contains a given subvolume.

       The limit sare separated between shared and exclusive and reflect the extent ownership. For example a fresh
       snapshot shares almost all the blocks with the original subvolume, new writes to either subvolume will raise
       towards the exclusive limit.

       The qgroup identifiers conform to level/id where level 0 is reserved to the qgroups associated with
       subvolumes. Such qgroups are created automatically.

       The qgroup hierarchy is built by commands create and assign.

           Note
           If the qgroup of a subvolume is destroyed, quota about the subvolume will not be functional until qgroup
           0/<subvolume id> is created again.

SUBCOMMAND
       assign [options] <src> <dst> <path>
           Assign qgroup <src> as the child qgroup of <dst> in the btrfs filesystem identified by <path>.

           Options

           --rescan
               Automatically schedule quota rescan if the new qgroup assignment leads to quota inconsistency.

           --no-rescan
               Explicitly ask not to do a rescan.

       create <qgroupid> <path>
           Create a subvolume quota group.

           For the 0/<subvolume id> qgroup, a qgroup can be created even before the subvolume created.

       destroy <qgroupid> <path>
           Destroy a qgroup.

           If a qgroup is no isolated,which means it is a parent or child qgroup, it can’t be destroyed.

       limit [options] <size>|none [<qgroupid>] <path>
           Limit the size of a qgroup to <size> or no limit in the btrfs filesystem identified by <path>.

       remove <src> <dst> <path>
           Remove the relationship between child qgroup <src> and parent qgroup <dst> in the btrfs filesystem
           identified by <path>.

       show [options] <path>
           Show all qgroups in the btrfs filesystem identified by <path>.

           Options

           -p
               print parent qgroup id.

           -c
               print child qgroup id.

           -r
               print limit of referenced size of qgroup.

           -e
               print limit of exclusive size of qgroup.

           -F
               list all qgroups which impact the given path(include ancestral qgroups)

           -f
               list all qgroups which impact the given path(exclude ancestral qgroups)

           --raw
               raw numbers in bytes, without the B suffix.

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

           --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.

           --kbytes
               show sizes in KiB, or kB with --si.

           --mbytes
               show sizes in MiB, or MB with --si.

           --gbytes
               show sizes in GiB, or GB with --si.

           --tbytes
               show sizes in TiB, or TB with --si.

           --sort=[+/-]<attr>[,[+/-]<attr>]...
               list qgroups in order of <attr>.


SEE ALSO
       mkfs.btrfs(8), btrfs-subvolume(8), btrfs-quota(8),



Btrfs v4.4.1                                          11/05/2016                                      BTRFS-QGROUP(8)