Error when autosnaping in timeshift afeter installing a package or upgrade

General system Newbie
#1

After installing timeshift and timeshift-autosnap and grub-btrfs

I Installed steam. timeshift took snapshot after installing steam, but it showed the following error
and some other errors but missed to copy those.

E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled

#2

Having btrfs quotas disabled shouldn’t cause any failures.

We really need to see the entire error output to better understand what happened.

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#3

I have Already Posted a issue like this, but that half baked. so here are the errors that occurred when updating or installing packages.

E: ERROR: can't list qgroups: quotas not enabled
E: btrfs returned an error: 256
E: Failed to query subvolume quota
#4 
Text file busy / btrfs returned an error: 256 / Failed to create snapshot can occur if you have a Linux swapfile mounted within the @ or @home subvolumes which prevents snapshot from succeeding. Relocate the swapfile out of @ or *@home, for example into it's own subvolume like @swap.

found this on: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift

#5

NOTE moved it here as it follow up on that…

#6

Can we see the whole output from the pacman run?

Can we also see the output of:

sudo btrfs subvolume list /
#7

output of sudo btrfs subvolume list / :

ID 257 gen 975 top level 5 path @
ID 258 gen 968 top level 5 path @cache
ID 259 gen 972 top level 5 path @log
ID 262 gen 25 top level 257 path var/lib/portables
ID 263 gen 26 top level 257 path var/lib/machines
ID 272 gen 880 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2021-12-08_18-54-43/@
#8

It looks like you are getting snapshots.

Can you update again and see if it takes another snapshot?

Also, share the whole output from the run, not just the error.