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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    sudo btrfs subvolumes create /path/to/subvolume

    If you don't configure anything, root will already be a subvolume.

    If you wanna make a used directory a subvolume, you have to move the contents first, and move them back after creation.

    The only thing that takes time here is the move

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Yeah, but Timeshift uses the Ubuntu style subvolume naming, @ for root, @home for /home, so you have to create them that way, otherwise, it won't work. It can work if you tell it to ignore home, but checks for @ as root on start up.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Check out Btrfs Assistant. It does what Timeshift does with a similar UI but works with any subvolume layout.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Hm, will check it out, thanks for the suggestion 😉.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Wasn't aware of that, using snapper for my snapshotting needs.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    I haven't tried it. Does it have like daily, weekly, monthly snapshots setup?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    You can have hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. I also use snap-pac to make snapshots before and after pacman transactions.

    Check out https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper