Do you have more than one btrfs partition?
@dalto
I have a different question regarding creating a config for home. If you didn’t install a /home partition then creating a config for home is doing nothing as home is in / rather than /home? I’m asking because if you created a /home partition during install it would have a subvolume? I’m asking because i don’t really understand everything very well.
There are a lot of possible scenarios to consider.
- If you select a btrfs root Calamares will create a
@homesubvol for you unless you create separate/homepartition. In this case, you can take snapshots of/home - If you create a separate
/homepartition that is btrfs you can snapshot it. - If you create a separate
/homepartition that isn’t btrfs than you cannot snapshot it. - If you use a custom layout where your root is btrfs but you deliberately don’t create a separate subvol for
/homeand don’t have a separate/homepartition then/homewill be part of/and your root snapshots will contain/home
So using the current ISO I’m assuming this is the case.
I used the layout that the current ISO provides so I’m assuming it creates the @home subvolume? I did create a config for home. So what does the subvolume do that is @home if i create a config for home.
Yes
Yes
The config is just settings which tell snapper to take snapshots of the subvol mounted at /home. In your case, that subvol is named @home
Yes, / and /home are on separate partitions.
So @home is the subvolume. But /home is in / right because it’s not a separate partition. So the @home subvolume contains /home?
There is a drop-down to switch partitions, then you should see the snapshots on the other partition.
No, / and /home are separate subvols in the same partition.
Yes? More accurately, the @home subvol is mounted at /home
I need a blueprint. 
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I have installed BTRFS Assistant perhaps 2 weeks ago and I can report that it works flawlessly (for me), even better than my experience with snapper on Opensuse Tumbleweed (a few years ago).
Excellent application. 
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Thanks for the feedback!
I should probably point out for everyone reading this topic that btrfs-assistant is now in the AUR. You no longer need to use the git version unless you want to test the latest changes. Although, I haven’t pushed any new changes so they are currently the same.
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If you have the git version installed can you switch it with a current installation that is setup?
Yes.
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Thanks for the tool. It is working perfectly fine as per provided instructions
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Have just discovered the tool, wonderful and installed according to instructions, it works perfectly.
thank you very much.
@dalto
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Have just discovered the tool, wonderful and installed according to instructions, it works perfectly.
thank you very much.
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Have a nice day,
I have a question, more cosmetic, how can I make the Btrfs-assistant look like the user Share has ?
Breez dark.
Thanks
best regards
Hi. I’m wondering why is my device part is blank. I can’t select any device, also no device seems under it. And giving me error like this.
Can you share the output of these commands:
sudo lsblk -o name,type,fstype,size,mountpoint
sudo btrfs subvolume list /
First off, thanks for all the great work you do for the community!
I haven’t had the chance to install and use you your program before now.
Searching in AUR, I get the following two hits: btrfs-assistant and btrfs-assistant-git . Only the former is maintained by you.
I wonder which one I should be installing.
And should I install btrfsmaintenance first?
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