What is Btrfs?
The Btrfs, B-Tree File System is a file system and volume manager. it was developed in the year 2007 and it was merged in the year 2009 with Linux Kernel. it has two advanced features such as a copy-on-write and checksums. it is not the successor of the ext4 file system but it may be in the future. it has some other features as:
- Online resizing of volumes
- Data compression transparently
- Maximum volume size is 16 exbibytes
- Multi-device spanning and pooling
- Checksums of data and metadata
- Supports RAID levels 0,1,10
How to install and format a partition with the Btrfs on Ubuntu?
In this article, we will discuss btrfs, its features, and the installation of btrfs. We will generalize each step on how we can create a partition using the fdisk utility and how we can make use of mkfs command utility to format the partition in btrfs.
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