Hi, I want to do an “awesome things” list with BTRFS tools

Help me gather them?

General

BTRFS CLI Interface

btrfs-progs official userpace utilities

BTRFS Assistant

Tool for doing many BTRFS actions graphically

It requires snapper and offers a GUI for it.

butter-manager

Tool for managing snapshots, balancing filesystems and upgrading the system safetly.

Backups & Snapshots

btrbk

Backup utility using BTRFS

Snapper

General system snapshot utility with BTRFS support, used in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed by default. There are also plugins for Fedoras dnf and for Arch pacman.

Timeshift

System restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB.

Small CLI tools

dupreremove

Tools for deduplicating file systems

compsize

takes a list of files on a btrfs filesystem and measures used compression types and effective compression ratio

Used in flatpak-dedup-checker

btdu

sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs

For multiple reasons, classic disk usage analyzers such as ncdu cannot provide an accurate depiction of actual disk usage. (btrfs compression in particular is challenging to classic analyzers, and special tools must be used to query compressed usage.)

btrfs-list

Helps listing directories

Partition managers with support

  • kde-partitionamanger
  • gnome-disks?
  • blivet-gui (Fedora Anaconda setup) ?
  • gparted?

Data recovery

When having deleted or corrupted data on a BTRFS partition, these tools can help:

Testdisk?

  • photorec?

scalpel?

R-Linux

Freeware, not FOSS? Not related to R and “R-Studio” is also not related to RStudio

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
    2·
    1 month ago

    Really interesting project.

    Yes I also thought it would be focused on non-BTRFS, especially as Mint doesnt use BTRFS either, right?

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 month ago

      You mean the default filesystem? I actually never used Mint and don’t think it’s the default, but most likely an option at install time. Maybe they plan on switching as the default in the future.