btrfs-balance-least-used command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

btrfs-balance-least-used: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: btrfs-balance-least-used: command not found

Solutions to btrfs-balance-least-used: command not found

How To Fix btrfs-balance-least-used: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu btrfs-balance-least-used is provided by python3-btrfs package.

python3-btrfs is:

The primary goal of this module is to be able to inspect the internals of a mounted, online, filesystem for educational purposes.

A second goal is to provide a nicer way for automating administration tasks and writing monitoring scripts by being able to just programmatically access the needed information, instead of having to spend most of the time on parsing human readable output from other btrfs tools.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install python3-btrfs

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install python3-btrfs.

sudo apt -y install python3-btrfs

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install python3-btrfs

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix btrfs-balance-least-used command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.