I am about to install my Tumbleweed 13.2 and I was reading about hardrives (ssd) filling up with snapshots while using Btrfs is this something that I should be concerned about? also I would like to know if there are any problems with amd graphic cards while using Tumbleweed?
please advise.
Thank you
You can disable snapshots completely when installing, it’s simple checkmark yes/no.
The post should be in the Thumbleweed sub-forum… Sins the release of 13.2 there has been no checkmarks other then accept Btrfs at / and snapshots or chose another filesystem for /. Not for common users.
regards
If installing Tumbleweed then you should post for help in Tumbleweed forum (where you posted earlier today about this) even if starting a new thread or topic in the “Help” section of the forum.
I realise you are new to posting on openSUSE Forum, so you also need to be aware that “double posting” on the same subject causes problems and is therefore not usually allowed.
BTW, Tumbleweed (rolling release) and 13.2 (the last stable release) are totally separate published releases of openSUSE, sourced from different package repositories. 
I beg to differ, it’s right smack in the first partitioning screen under “Edit Proposal” - hardly beyond “common” users.
Is this what you expect from “common users”, To make a choice on that info? Well… No comments.
regards
Ps. I dont recon the screenshot at all, Kbuntu maybe(for us not…) Whit a smile
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Hi
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Sorry I am new to this forum. So it is possible to disable the snapshots that way it doesn’t eat the space in the drive. Another concern is the amd graphics with the tumbleweed I might not be able to use them, this is what it says in the opensuse website. Rolling release is nice but I think i will stick to stable. Btw this is a much better community than Ubuntu you guys are on point.
Thanks
On Tue 24 Feb 2015 01:16:02 AM CST, xsamdagreatx wrote:
Sorry I am new to this forum. So it is possible to disable the snapshots
that way it doesn’t eat the space in the drive. Another concern is the
amd graphics with the tumbleweed I might not be able to use them, this
is what it says in the opensuse website. Rolling release is nice but I
think i will stick to stable. Btw this is a much better community than
Ubuntu you guys are on point.
Thanks
Hi
Yes, you can disable, Miuku’s post indicates how. You do loose the
advantage of rolling back and it’s just a matter to wind down the
config defaults in /etc/snapper/configs/root.
Not sure about the AMD fglrx driver, works fine in 13.2, I use the rpm
method from SDB:AMD fglrx - openSUSE Wiki
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Ok thanks. So is it possible to enable snapshots afterwards if i disable them at the beginning? also I know that in Ubuntu based distributions sometimes it is better to re-install the operating system once a new stable release comes out. This was my main reason why I wanted to stick with the rolling release. Is it the same with opensuse? or can you just keep upgrading just fine? Thank you for your help.
Yes, it just tells the system that it shouldn’t use the default configuration files and disables the hourly/daily snapshotting + disables snapshots when installing / removing software (which consumes a lot of space).
You can enable it later on.
For standard (stable) release (now 13.2), installing a new release is similar to Ubuntu where “sometimes it is better to re-install the operating system once a new stable release comes out”. Also known here as a “clean install”, and afterwards you need to migrate your own data and desktop settings over to the new system.
Alternatively, you can “upgrade” the current system to the new stable release. openSUSE offers two upgrade methods: an on-line distribution upgrade using the command “zypper dup”, or an off-line upgrade method using DVD/USB.
For Tumbleweed, rolling upgrades are performed using the command line method “zypper dup”. That is the only recommended or supported method for updating your system.
Thanks guys for the answers. I went with the stable release and I am already experiencing problems with my AMD card ( I made a seperate post here :https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505558-Weird-Graphic-glitches-after-first-install). If i went with the rolling release I can’t imagine the nightmare that I would have had it the stable one is already behaving badly. Thanks