Today I discovered Garuda's BTRFS assistant and it's a total game changer.

https://gitlab.com/btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant

Was looking at how to set up snapper on Fedora 39 and came across the ever knowledgable Stephens tech talks video. It does balance, setting up snapper, sub-volume management in a really cool GUI tool.

edit updated the link as the GitHub page was apparently ood, but it is in most repo's

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Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Interesting, I didn't know it existed outside of Garuda. Thanks OP.

Holzkohlen@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

Same. I even use Garuda and I never actually touched that thing. It's all preconfigured and I just let it do it's thing.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Can this make a btrfs partition usable to timeshift?

Atemu@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I don't know about timeshift but it appears to have a configuration tab for snapper.

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Yeah I seen that. Does snapper have a easy gui for dummies to make snapshots?

sirico@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

this is that more so in something like Fedora/Opensuse

blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

🥴 thanks

PainInTheAES@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Apparently btrfs assistant has a gui to create snapper snapshots. But there's also snapper-gui

morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social · 8 pts · 2y

Thank you 😃

penquin@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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Holzkohlen@feddit.de · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Timeshift forces you to use a very specific layout of btrfs partitions or whatever those are called. On Fedora.for instance, unless you set them up manually, Timeshift will not work. Snapper isn't so picky.

penquin@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

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safefel556@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 2y

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thantik@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y

Hopefully this assistant doesn't kill its wife...

(I promise you this statement is related. It's a little bit of history on BTRFS/ReiserFS though. BTRFS actually has support for in-place conversion from EXT and... ReiserFS, as it was kind of a competitor and the same engineers worked in ReiserFS)