compsize takes a list of files (given as arguments) on a btrfs filesystem and measures used compression types and effective compression ratio, producing a report such as: [~]$ compsize /usr/share Processed 120101 files. Type Perc Disk Usage Uncompressed Data 58% 1.1G 1.9G none 100% 351M 351M zlib 29% 41M 137M lzo 51% 776M 1.4G