How To Install btrfsmaintenance on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfsmaintenance on Debian 12.
What is btrfsmaintenance
btrfsmaintenance is:
This is a set of scripts for the btrfs filesystem that automates the following maintenance tasks: scrub, balance, trim, and defragment.
Tasks are enabled, disabled, scheduled, and customised from a single text file. The default configuration assumes an installation profile where ‘/’ is a btrfs filesystem.
The default values have been chosen as an even compromise between time to complete maintenance, improvement in filesystem performance, and minimisation of resources taken from other processes. Please note that I/O priority scheduling requires the use of BFQ or CFQ, and not noop, deadline, anticipatory, nor the new mq-deadline which uses blk-mq.
There are three methods to install btrfsmaintenance on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install btrfsmaintenance Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install btrfsmaintenance using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install btrfsmaintenance
Install btrfsmaintenance Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install btrfsmaintenance using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install btrfsmaintenance
Install btrfsmaintenance Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install btrfsmaintenance using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install btrfsmaintenance
How To Uninstall btrfsmaintenance on Debian 12
To uninstall only the btrfsmaintenance package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove btrfsmaintenance
Uninstall btrfsmaintenance And Its Dependencies
To uninstall btrfsmaintenance and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove btrfsmaintenance
Remove btrfsmaintenance Configurations and Data
To remove btrfsmaintenance configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge btrfsmaintenance
Remove btrfsmaintenance configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove btrfsmaintenance configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge btrfsmaintenance
Dependencies
btrfsmaintenance have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install btrfsmaintenance package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.