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Fedora 42 installer defaults to btrfs? What's everyone's opinion or experience on that? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 days ago by AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net to c/linux@programming.dev

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Not a tech support question, I'm just curious. I recently installed it. Everything is working great, feels like I got a whole new laptop compared to my previous setup. I haven't tried out any of btrfs's unique features, so I dunno, nothing special I can report about it. Coming from Debian I was just surprized by how different Fedoras installer defaults are. Do you agree with btrfs being a default option?

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[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does it do like openSUSE and create the subvolumes and snapshots for you? Because I dread configuring these freaking things from my days in Arch, and I fell in love with openSUSE when I realised it does it for you.

(And no, the archinstall script doesn't autoconfigure BTRFS unless you wipe your entire disk)

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Only @root and @home, no automatic snapshotting by default. I've been using "BTRFS assistant" to set them up

[–] bipedalsheep@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I was pleasantly surprised to learn this with openSUSE as well last week. It already saved my buttocks once when I messed up something with the greetd config file. Recovering from the latest working snapshot was easy. OpenSUSE is a very nice distro. Bought some merch to support them a bit.