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I found that it works fine if I first create a GPT partition and put btrfs inside. But if I use mkfs. btrfs to partition a blank drive, then mount that drive in fstab by label and not by UUID. I do not use btrfs raids of any kind. The problem occurs all the data will not be seen by plex or Kodi. I h...

I have experimented with this for like 15 years. I used to use ext4 and mhdffs but it got to buggy to use at debian 8 so i changed to mergerfs. I was storing lots of little text files and wanted some compression and btrfs file system looked good for this. After reading a bit at debian 9 I converted ...

Hard drive End to End failure This happened on a btrfs drive when i was deleting lots of files and the trash can got full. It has me worried now that this may happen to another drive. I am wondering if there is a way to set trash bins like a virtual shared drive across every volume on the system so ...

Btrfs + mergerfs + compression I have been running this now for a while and only had problem on a old drive. I am running 2 5 port esata multiplexers with 10 drives formated btrfs. i use the mergerfs to join them as It works well to keep the directorys intact on each drive. none of the btrfs join op...

Debian 10.2 seems to be on python 3 now but if you use gnome but some other desktops will make python 2.7 take over. its a real pain now with both fighting to control the machine. I wish they just take 2 out of the repository and force people to manualy install it if they need it. I wanted to get my...

on debian 10 they upgraded the python a tiny bit so it not expired for a few months. I hope they means they are working on it.

when doing a new install and it asks for the root password
if you press enter there does not seem to be a way to back up on the menu and put in a root password.


I had to reboot and start the install over to put in root password.

i downloaded the debian 11 testing version and it still has python 2 in it. arch mandriva susie fedora all have removed it . When will debian get this done ?

2020 and now im wondering how to make one big drive with btrfs out of 8 drives and then be able to split them up easy later ?

debian 11 is under developent and testing at the moment. But january 1 2000 was end of life on python 2.7 yet the developers have not removed it from the testing builds. Fedora susie both have removed it. I was hoping debian would.

How long till debian 2.7 is removed from debian 11. I wanted to install it but dont want the python that went end of life jan 1. on the install.

When i install an os I really dont want so much extra crap also installed like word processers games audio and music apps. And i really would like easy to find terminal file explores system utilities. network utilities and software management. There was a time linux would ask if you wanted to insatl...

well after spending an hour trying to install arch and finding it needed some drivers i gave up on it. just way to much command line needed to run it. It seems to have more newer btrfs code but just to hard to set it up.

I have btrfs running on 9 drives and am in process of changing more of my ext4 over to btrfs. but I ran into 1 problem with 12 tb drives they seem to have a unusually long precheck at bootup and fstab fails them. I am looking for a work around for that. I installed opensuse and well its yast gui too...

I am trying to use btrfs and the new version of the disk utility seems to have it patched so we can set up btrfs drives. the version in debian now is just not friendly to btrfs.

Just a note the disk utility i used was gnome disk utility but it was older version that did not have btrfs support yet. I checked the develpment of that utility and they seem to be adding it so you can specify compression and such in the utility for btrfs. I hope they move this out for stable use s...

What a pain i got it to work finally i created 8 btrfs drives and gave each a label like drive1 drive2.... drive 8 I was trying to figure how to do this all in the gui so i used the disk utility to create the mount for the drives it only kind of works with btrfs. to make it work i had to trick it. i...

Well OpenSuse is way further ahead it has GUI tools for handling partition and making btrfs ext4 lvm and other methods. I set up the desktop version of OpenSuse and it is very much improved over how it was years ago when i last used it. It seems pretty nice now and works a lot like Debian does altho...

Ok I will give open suse a try on my test machine and see if they have got better utils for managing this btrfs.

btrfs looks like a good idea It really needs some gui apps developed for it so people would not be afraid of it. If i am understanding they are trying to get away from partitions. so you just install btrfs on lots of drives and put them in a machine. then you can divide them up and apply raid or not...