I really don’t know! All options are 32 bit!
Maybe I need to install something or configure something?
I did exactly as
Seems your host system is 32 bit. Try running MX Linux on 32 bits. Not sure if it can provide BTRFS at all? @dalto ?
- Create a new random txt
$ echo "aaaabbbbcccddd" >> ~/Documents/"abc.txt"
$ ls -al Documents
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 1 test test 72 Jul 31 19:55 .
drwx------ 1 test test 574 Jul 31 19:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 15 Jul 31 19:55 abc.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 6 Jul 31 19:35 bbbbb.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 20597 Jul 31 19:29 pdf-test.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 17 Jul 31 19:30 test.txt
- Check size of recoll cache
$ du -sh ~/.recoll
164K /home/test/.recoll
- Create a new home snapshot
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list / | grep home
ID 257 gen 184 top level 5 path @home
ID 267 gen 136 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-37-31/@home
ID 269 gen 143 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-39-24/@home
ID 271 gen 184 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-58-37/@home
4, reboot, then check again
$ du -sh ~/.recoll
160K /home/test/.recoll
- Create a snapshot
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list / | grep home
ID 257 gen 193 top level 5 path @home
ID 267 gen 136 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-37-31/@home
ID 269 gen 143 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-39-24/@home
ID 271 gen 185 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_19-58-37/@home
ID 273 gen 193 top level 5 path timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2022-07-31_20-01-03/@home
- Reboot, then check again:
$ du -sh ~/.recoll
160K /home/test/.recoll
Did that answer you?
My guess would be that virtualization settings aren’t enabled in bios.
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Sorry! I don’t know what these results mean!
If you search for “aaaabbbbcccddd” in Recoll, how many times does the file “abc.txt” appear?
I created a new txt file, but recall does not index this file immediately, you have to wait for 1 min (time was defined by my recall schedule), then this file will appear in recall.
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WOW!
This is great 
I just need the permission from @dalto to “convert” my system to BTRFS.
And I will need how-to of course.
Now I do not know how I mark it solved for this post or AND the post @dalto suggested Recoll.
I wanna thank you all for all your help and guidance.
Would you allow me @dalto to start converting to BTRFS?
I actually ran BTRFS on this real old machine (10 years old) and it is running as brand new.
And I had these issues with BTRFS + Baloo.
This is where all my questions came from.
I confirm that! I’ve been using it for years. The first scan might take sometime, but incremental scans are really fast! For content search is really good!
Baloo works really well (but not for content), but of course you have to tweak it to scan only the interesting folders and exclude some files by extension.
Using Recoll with BTRFS? Was doing ok?
This is normal. I don’t mind leaving it overnight or whatever.
Thanks for the hint. I will look at it after I “convert” to BTRFS and install Recoll.
I loved it really. But this bug with BTRFS was preventing me from using BTRFS, which I believe is a great file system and is the future of Linux file system.
To update you… I am now reading Converting ext4 to btrfs
I hope I can convert smoothly.
I understand from @dalto it is better to convert than fresh install especially if I have some installed packages and configs done over a period. Converting ext4 to btrfs - #8 by dalto
But this … oooouchhhh…
TLDR
I will do a fresh install with BTRFS!
If you convert, in addition to needing a lot of free space, you will need to create all your subvolumes yourself after conversion and then move all the data around.
Good plan.
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That’s too much for me. I am not that patient with machines at this age and I am a big big noob. Not that expert.
I will take this as a complement as it comes fro @dalto
Thank you very much for all your patience and support.
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