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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXIT STATUS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

BTRFS-FIND-ROOT(8)            Btrfs Manual            BTRFS-FIND-ROOT(8)

NAME         top

       btrfs-find-root - filter to find btrfs root

SYNOPSIS         top

       btrfs-find-root [options] <device>

DESCRIPTION         top

       btrfs-find-root is used to find the satisfied root, you can
       filter by root tree’s objectid, generation, level.

OPTIONS         top

       -a
           Search through all metadata extents, even the root has been
           already found.

       -g <generation>
           Filter root tree by it’s original transaction id, tree root’s
           generation in default.

       -o <objectid>
           Filter root tree by it’s objectid,tree root’s objectid in
           default.

       -l <level>
           Filter root tree by B-+ tree’s level, level 0 in default.

EXIT STATUS         top

       btrfs-find-root will return 0 if no error happened. If any
       problems happened, 1 will be returned.

SEE ALSO         top

       mkfs.btrfs(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the btrfs-progs (btrfs filesystem tools)
       project.  Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories⟩.
       If you have a bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Problem_FAQ#How_do_I_report_bugs_and_issues.3F⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/btrfs-progs.git⟩
       on 2024-06-14.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2024-05-02.)  If you
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       manual page), send a mail to [email protected]

Btrfs v5.16.1                  02/06/2022             BTRFS-FIND-ROOT(8)

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