btrfs-progs ☆

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Description:
Userspace utilities to manage btrfs filesystems

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 6.17.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: btrfs filesystem system-utilities linux admin

Install: brew install btrfs-progs

About:
btrfs-progs provides a comprehensive suite of command-line utilities for creating, checking, modifying, and repairing btrfs filesystems. It serves as the essential userspace toolset for administering the B-tree Copy-on-Write (CoW) filesystem. This package enables advanced features like subvolumes, snapshots, compression, and RAID management directly from the terminal.

Key Features:

Filesystem creation and management (mkfs.btrfs, btrfs filesystem)
Advanced volume and subvolume administration (btrfs subvolume, btrfs device)
Built-in repair and integrity checking tools (btrfs check, btrfs rescue)
Snapshot creation and management for backups
Support for RAID0, RAID1, RAID10, and RAID5/6 configurations

Use Cases:

Formatting and mounting btrfs partitions on Linux systems
Creating incremental filesystem snapshots for system backups
Managing RAID arrays and adding/removing disks from a btrfs volume
Diagnosing and repairing corrupted btrfs filesystems

Alternatives:

xfsprogs – Provides equivalent tooling for the XFS filesystem, which is another advanced Linux filesystem option.
e2fsprogs – The standard toolset for ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems, suitable for more traditional Linux partitions.

License: GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

Dependencies: e2fsprogs, lzo, systemd, util-linux, zlib, zstd

Bottles available for: arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 7, 2025 10:52am		0	VERSION_BUMP	289b1404
Sep 17, 2024 3:26pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	6c2889b9