I’m on a laptop with a fairly small ssd, and “I’m willing to dedicate” 64gb to / with btrfs. I’ve been looking into the snapper with: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial + the archwiki and I still don’t understand.
Thanks
Hi
This will help more: System recovery and snapshot management with Snapper | Reference | openSUSE Leap 15.5
Specifically this part: System recovery and snapshot management with Snapper | Reference | openSUSE Leap 15.5 on where to configure the amount of snapshots kept. With 64GB you should be fine.
Make your life easier by going with the default of using the entire drive for the installation (ie. don’t use a separate home). Then you won’t have to worry about space for snapshots and you won’t waste unused “dedicated” space.
Also, the default install doesn’t retain a lot of snapshots so you could just stick with it. Plus, the cleanup of snapshots is done automatically.
View snapshots as “diffs”, they don’t use a lot of disk space on their own.
Great advice:
Monitored btrfs from 2016 to 2019. Switched system partition to btrfs and continued monitoring. Switched to default partitioning in 2020-05-17. No issues since two years:
[FONT=monospace]**erlangen:~ #** fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
**Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors**
Disk model: Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A84F222E-0177-499B-A7EA-BDA6F31E2196
**Device **** Start**** End**** Sectors**** Size****Type**
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 206848 1000214527 1000007680 476.8G Linux filesystem
**erlangen:~ #**[/FONT]
**erlangen:~ #** btrfs subvolume list -t /
ID gen top level path
-- --- --------- ----
256 308742 5 @
257 325165 256 @/var
258 324603 256 @/usr/local
259 310625 256 @/tmp
260 319346 256 @/srv
261 324626 256 @/root
262 324233 256 @/opt
263 322415 256 @/boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
264 294985 256 @/boot/grub2/i386-pc
265 324183 256 @/.snapshots
**2131 325165 256 @/home **
2546 325159 265 @/.snapshots/1777/snapshot
2675 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1892/snapshot
2676 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1893/snapshot
2677 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1894/snapshot
2678 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1895/snapshot
2679 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1896/snapshot
2680 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1897/snapshot
2681 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1898/snapshot
2682 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1899/snapshot
2683 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1900/snapshot
2684 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1901/snapshot
2685 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1902/snapshot
2686 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1903/snapshot
2687 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1904/snapshot
2688 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1905/snapshot
2689 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1906/snapshot
2690 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1907/snapshot
2691 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1908/snapshot
2692 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1909/snapshot
2693 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1910/snapshot
2694 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1911/snapshot
2695 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1912/snapshot
2696 324205 265 @/.snapshots/1913/snapshot
**erlangen:~ #**
Thank you, I bookmarked it