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

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

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

Holzkohlen ,

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 ,

Can this make a btrfs partition usable to timeshift?

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

blindbunny ,

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

sirico OP ,
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this is that more so in something like Fedora/Opensuse

blindbunny ,

🥴 thanks

PainInTheAES ,

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

penquin ,

Is there a difference between this and timshift/timeshift autosnap/grub-btrfs?

Holzkohlen ,

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 ,

I never had to set it up. I use endeavour OS and all I did was choose “btrfs” in the installer. That’s it. I just installed timeshift after that and ran it like normal. No issues. Installed auto snap and grub-btrfs and I’m in the races.

thantik ,

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)

safefel556 ,

Good morning sirs

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