Hi,
I am curious about Btrfs installation of Zorin os beta16.
Atm I have normal ext4 but want to do one with btrfs.
Any guide how to do this?
Is it enough to just put root ( /) and ( home) partition in btrfs and finish?
What about swap partition? I saw in one article that swap to file is not useful or safe with btrfs. So probably swap partition is best option?
Does Zorin have some automatic tools for maintaining btrfs or need manually?
Thanks
Follow this useful guide here. Hope this helps.
Thanks.
That is a basic yes.But what after installation? Any other setup
And most important, does Zorin os supports btrfs? You can find btrfs as a options in every distro but only few of them support btrfs out of the box.
i dont know where to find out those information 
Interesting , I just found out that stock kernel doesnt support btrfs 
arko@marko-HP-ENVY-x360-Convertible-13-ar0xxx:~$ cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev cgroup
nodev cgroup2
nodev cpuset
nodev devtmpfs
nodev configfs
nodev debugfs
nodev tracefs
nodev securityfs
nodev sockfs
nodev bpf
nodev pipefs
nodev ramfs
nodev hugetlbfs
nodev devpts
ext3
ext2
ext4
squashfs
vfat
nodev ecryptfs
fuseblk
nodev fuse
nodev fusectl
nodev efivarfs
nodev mqueue
nodev pstore
nodev autofsThe b-tree file system can be installed and used on Zorin 16 (currently, BETA).
You can find the modules necessary in the 5.8.0-50 kernel with
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/*/*ko
You can use lsmod command to find and sudo modprobe to add or remove modules.
All that being said... It is recommended to not try to install brtfs on Zorin OS (Or Ubuntu, for that matter...)
1.) It's simply overkill for a regular personal use computer.
2.) Like the SR-71 Blackbird: The Blackbird flies like an angel at RamJet speed. But slower than that, it is leaky, shaky and difficult to maintain control. In this, brtfs is like that on a standard home computer. It runs beautifully under a heavy load with massive data storage. But under a light load with smaller storage, it is outperformed in benchmarks by ext4.
If you plan on exploring just for the sake of doing so- please make sure you make good backups of your files prior to proceeding. Honestly, it is a lot of tedious configuring for really, no real reward on a standard system.
Now... if you are setting up a server for high traffic- that is another matter.
It sounds like a real mess when you posted this ,hehe.
I am looking for it just for my personal laptop.
Because I previously used Fedora, and it had btrfs by default.
Much easier for snapshot backup etc. Also I am previous Manjaro user.
And I saw it is also better for SSD hard drive.
Maybe I am wrong, and just need to learn to use Zorin OS get best of it xD
You are right; these are valid points in favor of brtfs. But as with many things, it is a tradeoff.
My opinion is; it is not worth the cons in comparison to the pros, given the setup and installation and the poorer over-all performance. Unless you are performing backups quite often... Personally, I prefer a different way of doing back ups and I use no apps or third party methods for it.
It can be initially very slow; but once done is fast, easy and easy to keep up to date.
On SSD; It's not journaling and it supports trim; which is good for SSD. But, ext4 supports Trim and is almost as good. The question of: Is it worth it for the individual personal notebook owner? becomes pretty relevant on that.
An advantage of brtfs is that you can use btrfs zstd compression to save some space on your SSD. But again, unless youa re doing Massive Files- it just isn't worth it. I have a terabyte and a half of drive space and have a lot of files and I have not even filled 4.5% of just the terabyte drive, yet.
Unless you are collecting full length feature films by the handful... It just won't really make a helpful difference, even if technically, it can save some space.
I agree with you.. Will do clean flash with ext4. Or maybe wait stable 16 xd
About backups, just want to be sure that I have everything safe. I have a lot of pictures, backup of games so dont want to lose those xD
See this. Worked for me.