On 5 Oct 2025 at 9:04, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" <[email protected]> Date sent: Sun, 5 Oct 2025 09:04:36 -0300 Subject: Re: BTRFS maintenance To: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM Javier Perez <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi. > > George N. White III wrote in a post something that resonated with me. > > > A lot of effort has gone towards improving the default configuration, > (but > now new problems for users who don't do btrfs maintenance and end > up with > broken filesystems). It is assumed that users going outside the defaults > > > Is there any link, tutorial, etc that explains what kind of btrfs > maintenance we are supposed to be doing? > Long time btrfs user and have never knowingly performed any > maintenance on my btrfs filesystem except balancing after converting > from single HDD to raid 1 my system. > > I wonder what I have been missing (ignorance is bliss :( ) > Thanks > > See: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg90536.html and > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs (Arch Linux often has > excellentdocumentation). > > Fedora has maintenance tools: > > btrfsmaintenance :Scripts for btrfs maintenance tasks > > btrfsd:Btrfsd is a lightweight daemon that takes care of all Btrfs > filesystemson a Linux system. > > btrfs-assistant:GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs > filesystemeasier. > > I use btrfs-assistant which has a weak dependency onbtrfsmaintenance. I have > been using default settings on 3 systems > (laptop, old iMac, and desktop) with SSD's for severalyears, but do backups > on spinning media > with XFS (from many years with XFS on SGI IRIX64 I come to trust it). > Thanks for info. I only have one recent machine I did a new install that has btrfs and checked and the btrfs-assistant was no installed?? So I manually installed and ran it. Not sure why that wasn't installed as a default program?? Has a 2TB nvme so has lots of free space. > -- > George N. White III > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
