Recommended Btrfs Assistant configuration

[shuvashish76]

@Leya

No actually it’s recommended to take snapshots of neither of those subvolumes.

Oh okay, sorry English isn’t my 1st language. Completely misunderstood it. Thankyou for re-explaining me

@Leya

Just take snapshots of @ and ignore anything else

I read somewhere it’s better to take snapshots of @home. Of course it depends on personal preference but still…

@dalto

I would always take snapshots of /home. I think it is fairly crazy not to do so.

However, I wouldn’t restore a snapshot of /home along with a / snapshot in most cases because it may overwrite user data.

For me, snapshots of my user data are far more valuable than snapshots of /.

@Leya

I think the line is there, but it’s commented out (there is a # in front of the line which means it is ignored).

Yes you’re right, it’s ignored, I missed that​

@Leya

So it definitely is working out of the box without any change needed, no matter if the line is there and uncommented by default or not.

Yep. Interesting…is it specific to EOS only?

@Leya

And no you don’t need to change anything. eos-dracut and 41_snapshots-btrfs are two entirely different things and both are needed.

eos-dracut generates the initram-fs needed for booting,
41_snapshots-btrfs basically generates the sub menu that will let you select the snapshot for booting in grub itself.

Again thanks for the explanation​