Btrfs Assistant

Overview

Btrfs Assistant is a GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem easier. The primary features it offers are:

• An easy to read overview of Btrfs metadata
• A simple view of subvolumes with or without Snapper/Timeshift snapshots
• Run and monitor scrub and balance operations
• A pushbutton method for removing subvolumes
• A management front-end for Snapper with enhanced restore functionality
  • View, create and delete snapshots
  • Restore snapshots in a variety of situations
    • When the filesystem is mounted in a different distro
    • When booted off a snapshot
    • From a live ISO
  • View, create, edit, remove Snapper configurations
  • Browse snapshots and restore individual files
  • Browse diffs of a single file across snapshot versions
  • Manage Snapper systemd units
• A front-end for Btrfs Maintenance
  • Manage systemd units
  • Easily manage configuration for defrag, balance and scrub settings

Screenshots

Installing

It is packaged as btrfs-assistant in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and many other distros. You can see the packaging status below.

Packaging Status

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

Development Requirements

• Qt6 / Qt Design UI
• C++17
• Cmake >= 3.5
• Root user privileges
• Btrfs filesystem