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BTRFS-QUOTA(8) Btrfs Manual BTRFS-QUOTA(8)

NAME

btrfs-quota - control the quota of a btrfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

btrfs quota <subcommand> <args>

DESCRIPTION

btrfs quota is used to enable/disable or rescan subvolume quota of a btrfs filesystem.
 
For setting quota or other quota operations on a btrfs filesystem, please see btrfs-qgroup(8) for details.
 
 
Warning
 
 
 
Quota and qgroup in btrfs filesystem is not stable and impacts performance in mainline kernel yet(v3.14 so far).
 

SUBCOMMAND

enable <path>
Enable subvolume quota support for a filesystem.
disable <path>
Disable subvolume quota support for a filesystem.
rescan [-s] <path>
Trash all qgroup numbers and scan the metadata again with the current config.
 
Options
-s
show status of a running rescan operation.
-w
wait for rescan operation to finish(can be already in progress).

EXIT STATUS

btrfs quota 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 btrfs wiki http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org for further details.

SEE ALSO

mkfs.btrfs(8), btrfs-subvolume(8), btrfs-qgroup(8)
06/20/2015 Btrfs v3.17