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gpstarman OP ,

Merge “Mint” and “Timeshift” partitions.

I thought (also most people said) keeping the Backup in same partition as root defeats the purpose of Backup and brings certain inconvenience like can’t just delete the partition. Also I don’t know if its possible to restore a backup from a partition to the same partition itself.

Use BTRFS if you can.

I’m aware that BTRFS has certain adavantages. But the whole BTRFS is alien to me, as I’m new to Linux. Also I assumed that BTRFS doesn’t have enough community support as ext4 is default on Linux and many people just aren’t bothered to change it.

If you can, ditch dual boot. If the reason of keeping Windows is MS Office or Adobe apps, you can install them on Wine.

I only use Windows for DaVinci Resolve Free. And for the possibility of requiring Windows exclusive programs in the future as I’m an Engineering Student.

System wide flatpaks are in /var/lib/flatpak/app. Flatpak installed for one user only are installed somewhere in ~/.var. Keep in mind that home directory is not backed up by default.

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

there are tools that are much more robust and configurable for keeping files safe and elsewhere.

But AFAIK, Only Pika Backup has intuitive GUI. And It’s auto backup doen’t work on Mint 21.3 cause of some old packge. So I sticked to TimeShift.

gpstarman OP , (edited )

fixed disks under /mnt

NAS in /media

Why ? that’s what I’m asking. Can’t you just put in the same folder and call it a day?

I put my fixed disk in /mnt

My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

Is it because mounted at /mnt?

Files under /media seems fine. files under /media says it’s owner is ‘me’

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

chmod 000

What does this do? I’m a Meganoob.

Fixed mountpoints

?

having one available manual mountpoint

you mean the whole /mnt is meant to single mount point?

Sorry for all the questions.

gpstarman OP , (edited )

Seems Clean.

No Disadvantages? Like some stubborn program says I will only work if its under /mnt?

gpstarman OP , (edited )

Thank You.

Otherwise you can just create a custom folder in root like someone else suggested

My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

Is it because mounted at /mnt?

Files under /media seems fine. files under /media says it’s owner is ‘me’

gpstarman OP ,

My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

Is it because mounted at /mnt?

Files under /media seems fine. and says it’s owner is ‘me’

gpstarman OP ,

You mean that you create folder in / named C:?

or a joke maybe?

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You for suggestion. Gonna try that Tonight and have fun mounting loads of data.

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

But isn’t anything under /mnt is defaulted to root as owner?

gpstarman OP ,

It is the same on Mint too.

gpstarman OP ,

No need to make it more complicated than it has to be.

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

My Files, which are inside the partition mounted in /mnt/something has root as Owner. So When I try to move something to Trash, it’s not allowing me to do, Only perma delete. When saw properties it said owner is root.

Is it because mounted at /mnt?

Files under /media seems fine. and says it’s owner is ‘me’

IDK if I’m doing anything wrong.

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

I thought it will be like various communities will be on various instances and lemmy connects them, not a single community scattered across multiple instances.

gpstarman OP ,

But won’t it be a good thing to create another community after an already existing community gone bad instead having multiple at the same time?

Also won’t there will be an fragmentation of users issue? Won’t it lead to not a single community grows big because it’s users are scattered across different instances?

gpstarman OP ,

Yeah, but just because this problem exists on reddit, it doen’t mean we have inherit those bad traits from reddit, right?

But, In the end there is nothing stops people from creating communites. So, Yeah.

gpstarman OP ,

Thnak You.

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

It is what it is.🙂‍↕️

gpstarman OP ,

when you can follow, subscribe to, post to, or comment on any community on any instance, there’s no fragmentation

I’m not talking about fragmentation on instances but on the communities.

If there are 5 Unixporn on different instances, I have to make 5 crossposts and the engagement I’m gonna get is fragmented.

If there is only one unixporn, only one post and I get more opinions of people in a collective manner and also more people will interact with each other, which lead to more refined solution.

But Whatever, It is what it is.

gpstarman OP ,

I’m not saying don’t create lemmy community when subreddit exist.

I’m saying don’t create lemmy community when another lemmy community for the same purpose already exists on different instance without a good reason.

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You for the helpful info .

gpstarman OP ,

Interesting viewpoint.

gpstarman OP ,

each backup is just the difference between the original backup and the current system.

So what if I Deleted the very first backup itself (which is manual backup), does the following backups become obsolute since the follwing backups created links from the original backup ?

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

Thnaks man.

gpstarman OP , (edited )

I don’t have any idea man, It seems that you are indicating that I put something bad as title. But I thought it’s not a wrong title as I’m in fact asking about deleting timeshift snapshots. Seriously have no idea.

Also I know English but I’m not used to speak (type) English.

Edit: Just now understood. Thank You.

gpstarman OP ,

My bad bro just noticed. It would have been helpful if just pointed that out instead of name calling. I noticed the pun bro.

gpstarman OP ,

Because I still Don’t know the difference between hardlinks and softlinks and symlinks 😅

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You for the suggestion.

gpstarman OP ,

Thank You. Still got to learn a lot.

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