New Leap 16 + existing Windows 10 dual boot - boot menu order, windows fast boot, cockpit

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  1. In 15.6 I could change boot order in the grub menu in Yast. How do I change it in Leap 16? I want to keep the boot menu with windows 10 as default after timeout.

  2. Do I still need to disable fastboot in windows? I intend to mount windows c:/ as read-only in the Leap filesystem.

  3. For installation I shrunk windows partition and from Agama I could install Leap without touching the windows partitions (Agama did rewrote EFI partition but that’s expected). However I couldn’t find any option to split the empty space in /, /home and swap, the installer would only do / and swap, so I ended up with home on the same BTRFS partition as root, obviously. Is there a performance penalty for this? Will /home be included in snapshots? I kinda knew how to check this with yast, but not know.

  4. I couldn’t find any Cockpit menu entry (KDE desktop). I think it’s something I access from the browser (Firefox)?

Thanks!

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Answering myself #4: read the docs, you lazy moron :grin:
https://en.opensuse.org/Main:Cockpit

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FWIW, I created a .desktop file ~/.local/share/applications/cockpit.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=System;Administration;
Comment=Server Management
Exec=xdg-open https://localhost:9090
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/cockpit.png
Name=Cockpit
NoDisplay=false
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

…and I added the menu shortcut to my KDE panel for convenience.

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If you use grub2-efi for booting you can set default + timeout in /etc/default/grub and then run update-bootloader --config.

Yes. At least it will save you trouble when using windows filesystems in linux.

The openSUSE default installation puts /home in a subvolume and subvolumes are not included in snapshots.

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For a good reason. @lkocman just gave the example that f.e. rm -rf ~/Downloads/*.avi can have a huge impact. I’ve experimented with it, but stopped. Now using rsync for weekly backups of /home, and btrfs send / receive for occasional system snapshots, mostly just for trying.

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Excellent, thanks!

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Thank you, susejunky. I couldn’t find out the exact value for GRUB_DEFAULT= (windows? Windows10? other?), but

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

did the trick, now grub default is set to the previous boot OS.

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With fastboot on, I’ve alternated various times between Leap and w10 without issues, but I haven’t yet set windows C: as a read-only filesystem in LEAP. I don’t think that as read-only it will trigger the fastboot problem, but if it does I’ll desable it. I’d rather not, as this AIO is quite slow closing up without it. Anyway this is temporary, as coming next October (end of extended suport) or sooner, windows will be gone.

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You’ll get the issue when mounting that the NTFS filesystem was not shutdown properly.