From: Darrick J. Wong Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 22:14:30 +0000 (-0500) Subject: xfs_spaceman: add a man page X-Git-Tag: v4.12.0-rc1~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e627898252e308ee72fcea590b2748c025ef3f7c;p=thirdparty%2Fxfsprogs-dev.git xfs_spaceman: add a man page Add a manual page describing xfs_spaceman's behavior. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen [sandeen: minor edits] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen --- diff --git a/man/man8/xfs_spaceman.8 b/man/man8/xfs_spaceman.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..56fe73546 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/xfs_spaceman.8 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +.TH xfs_spaceman 8 +.SH NAME +xfs_spaceman \- show free space information about an XFS filesystem +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B xfs_spaceman +[ +.B \-c +.I cmd +] +.I file +.br +.B xfs_spaceman \-V +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B xfs_spaceman +reports and controls free space usage in an XFS filesystem. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP 1.0i +.BI \-c " cmd" +.B xfs_spaceman +commands may be run interactively (the default) or as arguments on +the command line. Multiple +.B \-c +arguments may be given. The commands are run in the sequence given, +then the program exits. + +.SH COMMANDS +.TP +.BI "freesp [ \-drs ] [-a agno]... [ \-b | \-e bsize | \-h bsize | \-m factor ]" +With no arguments, +.B freesp +shows a histogram of all free space extents in the filesystem. +The command takes the following options: + +.RS 1.0i +.PD 0 +.TP 0.4i +.B \-a agno +Collect free space information from this allocation group. +This option can be specified multiple times to collect from multiple groups. + +.TP +.B \-b +This argument establishes that the histogram bin sizes are successive powers of two. +This is the default, and is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-e" ", " "-h" ", and " "-m" " options." + +.TP +.B \-d +Print debugging information such as the raw free space extent information. + +.TP +.B \-e bsize +Set all histogram bin sizes to a specific value. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-b" ", " "-h" ", and " "-m" " options." + +.TP +.B \-h bsize +Create a histogram bin with a lower bound of this value. +The upper bound of this bin will be one less than the lower bound of the +next highest histogram bin. +This option can be given multiple times to control the exact bin sizes. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-b" ", " "-e" ", and " "-m" " options." + +.TP +.B \-m factor +Create each histogram bin with a size that is this many times the size +of the prvious bin created. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-b" ", " "-e" ", and " "-h" " options." + +.TP +.B \-r +Query the realtime device for free space information. + +.TP +.B \-s +Display a summary of the free space information found. +.PD +.RE +.TP +.BR "help [ " command " ]" +Display a brief description of one or all commands. +.TP +.BI "prealloc [ \-u id ] [ \-g id ] [ -p id ] [ \-m minlen ] [ \-s ]" +Removes speculative preallocation. +If no +.BR "-u" ", " "-g" ", or " "-p" +options are given, this command acts on all files. +The command takes the following options: + +.RS 1.0i +.PD 0 +.TP 0.4i +.B \-u uid +Clear all speculative preallocations for files with this user id. +This option can be given in combination with the +.B "-g" " and " "-p" +options. + +.TP +.B \-g gid +Clear all speculative preallocations for files with this group id. +This option can be given in combination with the +.B "-u" " and " "-p" +options. + +.TP +.B \-p pid +Clear all speculative preallocations for files with this project id. +This option can be given in combination with the +.B "-u" " and " "-g" +options. + +.TP +.B \-m minlen +Ignore all files smaller than this size. +Units can be supplied for this argument. + +.TP +.B \-s +Wait for removal to complete. +.PD +.RE +.TP +.B print +Display a list of all open files. +.TP +.B quit +Exit +.BR xfs_spaceman . +.TP +.BI "trim ( \-a agno | \-f | " "offset" " " "length" " ) [ -m minlen ]" +Instructs the underlying storage device to release all storage that may +be backing free space in the filesystem. +The command takes the following options: +(One of +.BR -a ", " -f ", or the " +.IR offset / length +pair are required.) + +.RS 1.0i +.PD 0 +.TP 0.4i +.B \-a agno +Trim free space extents in the given allocation group. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-f" " option and the " +.IR "offset" "/" "length" " options." + +.TP +.B \-f +Trim all free space in the filesystem. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-a" " option and the " +.IR "offset" "/" "length" " options." + +.TP +.IR "option" ", " "length" +Trim all free space within the physical range defined by the +.I offset +and +.I length +from this filesystem. +Units can be appended to these arguments. +This option is mutually exclusive with the +.BR "-a" " and " "-f" " options." + +.TP +.B \-m minlen +Do not trim free space extents shorter than this length. +Units can be appended to this argument. +.PD +.RE