diff --git a/roles/common/tasks/main.yml b/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
index 79ab632e71ae098733f6d436fb56e405573c9885..4d84358ab500daa193eeea0eb4a9271b31d6260b 100644
--- a/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 - name: Install essential tools
   pacman: name=vim,nano,tmux,htop,ncdu,bash-completion,rsync,vnstat state=present
 
+- name: Install compsize for use with btrfs
+  pacman: name=compsize state=present
+  when: filesystem == "btrfs"
+
 - name: Start and enable vnstatd
   service: name=vnstat enabled=yes state=started