Creating the btrfs filesystem
To begin with, we will create a btrfs
filesystem on the /dev/sdd
complete disk. We do not need to partition the disk first, saving us time from the outset. This is shown in the following command line:
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdd
With the filesystem created, we can take the time to become familiar with the integrity check tool:
# btrfsck /dev/sdd
The following screenshot shows the output from my system:
To verify that the btrfs
filesystem is in operation, we will create a directory and mount it therein. We will also copy some data and display the usage information for the disk:
# mkdir -p /data/simple # mount /dev/sdd /data/simple ...
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