Thankyou for the info. All clear besides these parts.
A. enable grub-btrfs from Timeshift? I assume there is an settings for this.
B. For this I’ll look into [1] [2]
C. I’ll research how to do this for GRUB.
A. grub-btrfs are separate package which listens for snapshots created/deleted and creates/removes new GRUB Menu based on that. You need both timeshift and grub-btrfs separately. Also there another package for adding hook on pacman/yay update, don’t remember the name of it.
Also there are BTRFS-Bees if you want to deduplicate your filesystem on block level automatically, based on free CPU %. Don’t do defrags while using it. Do defrag only once ever before installing bees.
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2 more questions
- Does EOS create
/homepartition by default or I’ve to do it manually during the installation? - If it doesn’t, can I proceed with default partition options with BTRFS then later on add
/homepartition?
I’m using 1hardrive so I’d like to use separate /home partition so that if something goes wrong my files will be safe & I can just re-install the OS without moving files back-and-forth to separate drive. I understand this threat-model doesn’t guarantee files safety, just for easier to reinstalling the OS.
I’ll try on virtualbox with this guide and see how it works.
If I remember correctly, you can select if you want /home as a separate partition or not.
Yes you can modify partitions and configuration later on with GParted. You will need USB LiveOS flash stick to make changed on partition you are booted right now, though.
Both partition can have different snapshot times.
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