How to tell if btrfs subvolumes are actually compressed or not
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I have mounted Btrfs subvolumes (including
/home
) with the compress=no
option in /etc/fstab
. However, when I run btrfs inspect-internal dump-super -a
(both, on the running system, as well as on a live boot and mounting with compress=no
), it shows COMPRESS_ZSTD
in incompat_flags
. So, are the subvolumes being used without compression, or with compression? Fedora 34 Workstation (GNOME), fresh install. This seems to default to zstd for at least the /home
subvolume, which was not the case earlier, but is compression actually enabled despite being mounted with compress=no
, as shown by inspect-internal
? The partition containing the subvolumes is LUKS2-encrypted.
Asked by Saurav Sengupta
(321 rep)
Aug 18, 2021, 07:25 PM
Last activity: Sep 5, 2021, 12:48 AM
Last activity: Sep 5, 2021, 12:48 AM