Hi, I want to do an “awesome things” list with BTRFS tools
Help me gather them?
BTRFS CLI Interface
btrfs-progs official userpace utilities
BTRFS Assistant
Tool for doing many BTRFS actions graphically
btrbk
Backup utility using BTRFS
snapper
General system snapshot utility with BTRFS support, used in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
butter-manager
Tool for managing snapshots, balancing filesystems and upgrading the system safetly.
btrfs-list
Helps listing directories
Partition managers with support
- kde-partitionamanger
- gnome-disks?
- blivet?
- gparted?
Timeshift uses BTRFS snapshots (CoW subvolumes). It also does some hardlinking stuff for other filesystems, but on BTRFS the entire thing just works a bit better.
More tools I forgot to mention: duperemove to deduplicate extents, and compsize to show how effectively filesystem compression is working.