2y ago

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

GitHub - garuda-linux/btrfs-assistant: An application for managing BTRFS subvolumes and Snapper snapshots (mirrored from GitLab)

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

btrfs @lemmy.ml

Atemu @lemmy.ml

2y ago

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

gitlab.com /btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant

Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org

GadgeteerZA @beehaw.org

3y ago

Btrfs Assistant is a useful GUI management tool to make managing a Btrfs filesystem easier on Linux

gitlab.com /btrfs-assistant/btrfs-assistant

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Interesting, I didn't know it existed outside of Garuda. Thanks OP.
- 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.
Can this make a btrfs partition usable to timeshift?
- I don't know about timeshift but it appears to have a configuration tab for snapper.
  
  Yeah I seen that. Does snapper have a easy gui for dummies to make snapshots?
Thank you 😃
- 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.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Stephens tech talks video
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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)

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