BEES 🐝 Btrfs dedupe tutorial

On ubuntu 24.04, download latest release from https://github.com/Zygo/bees/tags

Then install prerequites: sudo apt -y install build-essential btrfs-progs markdown

Then unzip and go in that directory and “make” then “make install”

Find your UUID for BTRFS: sudo btrfs fi show (PATH-HERE)

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(might be useless) cp /etc/bees/beesd.conf.sample /etc/bees/beesd.conf

(might be useless) nano /etc/bees/beesd.conf (and put your UUID there)

sudo systemctl enable beesd@(your BTRFS UUID here).service

sudo systemctl start beesd@(your BTRFS UUID here).service

sudo systemctl status beesd@(your BTRFS UUID here).service

Happy de-duping