Created attachment 143060 [details] example Fedora and openSUSE use Btrfs by default, it would be an improvement to support some Btrfs features directly on Dolphin. Trivially, with the btrfs driver for Windows 10 you have the Windows file manager with better support (create subvolumes, balance ...), actions that a Fedora user should do from the CLI.
For other screenshots, since I don't know how to put them here, I had filed the bug on gitlab. https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/issues/22
What exactly would Dolphin need for better support? Can you provide a list?
Thank you for answering, you of KDE you are always so kind and helpful. I don't know in which place it is best to insert these options, maybe right click> Properties? Or in the right click list? - Create Subvolume Creating a separate subway has some advantages, mainly + that are excluded from the snapshots. Example from CLI: emanu@fedora ~> btrfs subvolume create test Create subvolume './test' emanu@fedora ~> ls -l | grep test drwxr-xr-x. 1 emanu emanu 0 8 nov 22.27 test - Defrag Select a folder, you can choose to make a Defrag, useful on the database or to comply files already written by selecting the algorithm. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-filesystem#EXAMPLES - Scrub https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs-scrub - Compress folder or file set Example, it can isolate you to create a suburb or set a folder with different compression algorithm, diablaiming compression etc. example: btrfs property set <file> compression I was surprised, installing the BTRFS driver on Windows, to have all this in the file manager. Available here: https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs Is it difficult for Dolphin to know if you are on a BTRFS filesystem and show these options?
> Thank you for answering, you of KDE you are always so kind and helpful. Aww, you're too kind! Creating a subvolume would be something I expect you'd do in a partitioning app like Partition Manager. I'd recommend you open a new bug report for it there. For Defrag, Scrub, and Compress operations, the most logical place for these would be in the properties window for a folder, which comes from KIO. Moving the bug report there.
Subvolumes behave like normal folders for users, is having them on Dolphin the best place? And you have the advantage of Btrfs if you use snapshot and btrfs send. If I have to create a folder I do it from Dolphin.
How often does a BTRFS user create subvolumes compared to how often a typical file manager user creates folders, though?
Safely the frequency will be minor, compared to creating folders, but the problem is that creating a folder/subvolume in a specific location on the user's home is possible? Example: - I have the "Downloads" folder, I remove it and create it as a subvolume. - I go to any other folder of my user and create the subvolume/folder with a click To be clarified that so you create a nested subvolume with user permissions: you can remove it as any other folder, there is no need to specify mounting points on "fstab". On the Partition Manager, in my opinion, it's ok to add the functionality of creating BTRFS subvolume, but at the system level, to the Toplevel and Flat, in this case you need to specify the mount point, but this will be for a request for separate functionality, because Maybe a little more complex and with a good UX design.
I created an example video: https://youtu.be/bjoj612HGsQ