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BTRFS-SPACE-CALCULATOR(1) Btrfs Space Calculator BTRFS-SPACE-CALCULATOR(1)

NAME

btrfs-space-calculator - calculate usable and wasted space

SYNOPSIS

btrfs-space-calculator [args] sizes

DESCRIPTION

The btrfs-space-calculator program shows the amount of allocatable space on btrfs physical and virtual level, and the amount of unallocatable space resulting from having differently sized block devices added to the filesystem.

In a btrfs filesystem, raw storage is shared by data of different types (System, MetaData and Data) and profiles (e.g. single, DUP, RAID1). Also, a filesystem can have multiple block devices of different sizes attached.

An example:

-$ btrfs-space-calculator -m raid1 -d raid1 2TB 500G 1TB Target metadata profile: RAID1 Target data profile: RAID1 Mixed block groups: False Total raw filesystem size: 3.18TiB Device sizes: Device 1: 1.82TiB Device 2: 465.66GiB Device 3: 931.32GiB Metadata to data ratio: 1:200 Estimated virtual space to use for metadata: 7.00GiB Estimated virtual space to use for data: 1.36TiB Total unallocatable raw amount: 465.66GiB Unallocatable raw bytes per device: Device 1: 465.66GiB Device 2: 0.00B Device 3: 0.00B

Note that most physical disk vendors specify their sizes in GB or TB for deceptive marketing reasons, while partitions created in your average partition table or with lvm2 etc... are usally using MiB, GiB and TiB.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Show the built-in help message and exit.
-m, --metadata PROFILE
Metadata profile, values like for data profile.
-d, --data PROFILE
Data profile, raid0, raid1, raid5, raid6, raid10, dup or single.
-M, --mixed
Use mixed block groups (data and metadata profile must match).
-r, --ratio RATIO
Data to metadata ratio, e.g. 200, which means allocate 0.5% for metadata.

SEE ALSO

This program is an example of what can be done using the python-btrfs library.

Source and documentation on github: https://github.com/knorrie/python-btrfs

2018