How To Install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36.
What is btrfs-fuse
This is a read-only btrfs implementation using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). Although btrfs is already in mainline Linux kernel, there are still use-cases for such read-only btrfs implementation - Educational purpose complex and modern filesystem works; - For certain bootloaders their license; - As a last resort method for subpage/multipage support the Linux kernel can only support sectorsize == pagesize , and 4K sectorsize with 64K page size; thus this project can act as a last resort method to read data from filesystem with unsupported sectorsize.
We can use yum or dnf to install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install btrfs-fuse.
Install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install btrfs-fuse using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install btrfs-fuse
Install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install btrfs-fuse using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install btrfs-fuse
How To Uninstall btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the btrfs-fuse package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove btrfs-fuse
btrfs-fuse Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/btrfs-fuse
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/898251a912919aeaa216018c50908141b0832d
/usr/share/doc/btrfs-fuse
/usr/share/doc/btrfs-fuse/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/btrfs-fuse
/usr/share/licenses/btrfs-fuse/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfs-fuse on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).