@@ -20,15 +20,21 @@ SUBCOMMAND
*df* <path> [<path>...]::
Show space usage information for a mount point.
-*show* [--mounted|--all-devices|<path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label>]::
-Show the btrfs filesystem with some additional info.
+*show* [-d|-m] [<path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label>]::
+Show the structure of btrfs filesystem(s).
+
-If no option nor <path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label> is passed, btrfs shows
-information of all the btrfs filesystem both mounted and unmounted.
-If '--mounted' is passed, it would probe btrfs kernel to list mounted btrfs
-filesystem(s);
-If '--all-devices' is passed, all the devices under /dev are scanned;
-otherwise the devices list is extracted from the /proc/partitions file.
+If none of '<path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label>' is passed, btrfs shows
+information of all the btrfs filesystems both mounted and unmounted.
++
+The show command finds btrfs filesystems by scanning all the devices
+in /proc/partitions by default.
++
+`Options`
++
+-d|--alldevices::::
+scan all the devices under /dev
+-m|--mounted::::
+scan only mounted filesystems
*sync* <path>::
Force a sync for the filesystem identified by <path>.
@@ -578,11 +578,16 @@ out:
}
static const char * const cmd_show_usage[] = {
- "btrfs filesystem show [options] [<path>|<uuid>|<device>|label]",
- "Show the structure of a filesystem",
- "-d|--all-devices show only disks under /dev containing btrfs filesystem",
- "-m|--mounted show only mounted btrfs",
- "If no argument is given, structure of all present filesystems is shown.",
+ "btrfs filesystem show [-d|-m] [<path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label>]",
+ "Show the structure of btrfs filesystem(s).",
+ "",
+ "By default, the show command scans all devices found in /proc/partitions.",
+ "If [-d|--all-devices] is specified, all devices found under /dev are scanned.",
+ "If [-m|--mounted] is specified, only mounted btrfs devices are scanned.",
+ "",
+ "By default, the structure of all discovered filesystems is shown.",
+ "If any one of [<path>|<uuid>|<device>|<label>] is specified, only filesystems",
+ "matching that identifier are shown.",
NULL
};