How to Format a Hard Disk Partition with BTRFS on Ubuntu 20.04 | Linux Today

How to Format a Hard Disk Partition with BTRFS on Ubuntu 20.04

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Sep 14, 2021

Btrfs or commonly pronounced as b-tree FS or butter FS is a COW (copy-on-write) based disk storage format and filesystem combined with a volume manager. In this article, I will show you how to create a disk partition and format it with Btrfs file system on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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