====== BTRFS Maintenance scripts ====== ===== Defragment ===== From [[https://helmundwalter.de/blog/btrfs-finding-and-fixing-highly-fragmented-files/|BTRFS fragmentation can hurt the performance of your System]] Find the most fragmented files on your System: find / -xdev -type f| xargs filefrag 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^\(.*\): \([0-9]\+\) extent.*/\2 \1/' | awk -F ' ' '$1 > 500' | sort -n -r | head -30 You should review this list. If there is something with 10000+ extends, it is a candidate to be flagged as nodatacow. In my case, I have discovered that the fail2ban sqlite database was using 170k extends which is a lot! find / -xdev -type f| xargs filefrag 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^\(.*\): \([0-9]\+\) extent.*/\2 \1/' | awk -F ' ' '$1 > 500' | cut -f ' ' -f2 2>/dev/null | xargs -r btrfs -v fi defrag -f -czstd ===== Headline ===== #!/bin/bash [[ ! -d $1 ]] && { echo Please pass mountpoint as first argument >&2 ; exit 1 ; } while read x i x g x x l x p do volName[i]=$p done < <(btrfs subvolume list $1) while read g r e do [[ -z $name ]] && echo -e "subvol\tqgroup\ttotal\tunshared" group=${g##*/} [[ ! -z ${volName[group]} ]] && name=${volName[group]} || name='(unknown)' echo $name $g `numfmt --to=iec $r` `numfmt --to=iec $e` done < <(btrfs qgroup show --raw $1 | tail -n+3) | column -t ===== remove dangling QGroups ===== To solve ''After deleting a subvolume, you must manually delete the associated qgroup.'' mentioned here: [[https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Quota_support#Known_issues]] #!/bin/bash [[ ! -d $1 ]] && { echo Please pass mountpoint as first argument >&2 ; exit 1 ; } while read x i x g x x l x p do volName[i]=$p done < <(btrfs subvolume list $1) while read g r e do group=${g##*/} [[ -z ${volName[group]} ]] && [[ $r -eq 0 ]] && [[ $e -eq 0 ]] && echo $g $r $e && btrfs qgroup destroy $g $1 #name=${volName[group]} || name='(unknown)' #echo $name $g `numfmt --to=iec $r` `numfmt --to=iec $e` done < <(btrfs qgroup show --raw $1 | tail -n+3) | column -t @daily /usr/local/bin/btrfsQGroupClean.sh ===== periodic scrub ===== From arch linux ''btrfs-progs'' [Unit] Description=Btrfs scrub on %f [Service] Nice=19 IOSchedulingClass=idle ExecStart=/bin/btrfs scrub start -B %f [Unit] Description=Monthly Btrfs scrub on %f [Timer] OnCalendar=monthly AccuracySec=1d Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable btrfs-scrub@-.timer systemctl start btrfs-scrub@-.timer # to enable for / systemctl enable btrfs-scrub@home.timer # to enable for /home systemctl start btrfs-scrub@home.timer # to enable for /home