Amethyst Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Andy Costanza@programming.dev to Linux@programming.dev · 4 days ago

What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions

itsfoss.com

external-link
message-square
27
link
fedilink
91
external-link

What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions

itsfoss.com

Andy Costanza@programming.dev to Linux@programming.dev · 4 days ago
message-square
27
link
fedilink
What are Btrfs subvolumes in Linux? Understand how they work and why they are better than traditional partitions with features like snapshots and flexibility.
  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 days ago

    Transparent fileystem compression and deduplication (btrfs feature not in ext4) compresses data while still having it be accessible normally. This leads to big space savings.

    You can use the tool compsize to check it out.

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      Thanks. Will do.

Linux@programming.dev

linux@programming.dev

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !linux@programming.dev

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

  • !linux_memes@programming.dev
  • !linuxphones@lemmy.ca
  • our Matrix group chat
  • !reactos@programming.dev

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 463 users / day
  • 2.62K users / week
  • 4.5K users / month
  • 11.3K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 13K subscribers
  • 3.58K Posts
  • 27.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Ategon@programming.dev
  • adr1an@programming.dev
  • dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org