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

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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    4 months ago

    I’ve used btrfs-autosnap for a while on Arch and it’s brilliant. Whenever you install or remove something with pacman it creates a btrfs snapshot of your subvolumes and if you have grub-btrfs install too they get added to Grub menu. Very handy.

    You can define which subvolumes you want snapshotted and how many snapshots of each you want to keep. Which means it also removes the oldest snapshot when a new is created if it gets over the keep amount.