btrfs-image command not found

Introduction

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

btrfs-image: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: btrfs-image: command not found

Solutions to btrfs-image: command not found

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

In Ubuntu btrfs-image is provided by btrfs-progs package.

btrfs-progs is:

Btrfs is a copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.

This package contains utilities (mkfs, fsck) used to work with btrfs and an utility (btrfs-convert) to make a btrfs filesystem from an ext3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install btrfs-progs

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

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

sudo apt -y install btrfs-progs

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

sudo aptitude install btrfs-progs

Summary

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