There are some pending enhancements to Garuda Assistant related to btrfs support that I would appreciate some help testing. Specifically, these changes are:
Modifying the btrfs main btrfs tab to display information in a more meaningful fashion
Adding recommendations for if a balance is needed or not
Adding messages about disk space
Adding support for displaying information about multiple btrfs partitions
A new tab which allows you to browse and delete subvolumes/snapshots
I would especially appreciate any testing done with the delete button as I have tried to make that as safe as possible but would like to ensure it doesn't have any adverse outcomes. It should refuse to delete any subvolumes that are currently mounted which should keep people from inadvertently destroying @home or something similar.
In order to test the new version you can install garuda-assistant-git
Really good work @dalto !
To make testing easier I changed garuda-assistant-git to build from the btrfs branch for now, there won't be any changes done to master anyways right now. So @testers, just install this package to help providing some feedback
OK, I will see if I can find it. That seems like a problem. If you are randomly booting between a snapshot and @ due to a duplicate entry it will leave your system in an odd state.
@dalto
I have retested and cannot replicate
Either baremetal or vm
I can only delete time shift items as intended.
In btrfs General I see that the data line is taken from the allocated and used data not the total btrfs volume? is that intended?
What it means, in the example above is that I have 11.79 GiB data used and it is taking up 12.01GiB of disk space. Regular usage of the disk will cause the difference between those two numbers to increase and a rebalance will pull them back together.
The total space allocated is equal to the data size + metadata size + system size. Notice that the size used for the metadata and system is doubled because the data is stored twice in this case. That is what DUP means.
Unfortunately, btrfs terminology is pointlessly confusing. That being said, I am not sure that introducing our own terminology will make things less confusing.
ok sorry for that im trying to look at this as a new user, I think i was trying to say as if i didnt no what it was? What does it mean ? Data of what ? if i was a new user i would see that as oh shit i have no room left
Btw i love the way it says "you have lots of free space, did you overbuy"
Yes I like it. im just trying to think of a better way of describing the "data" as data is meaninless on its own
Can you could add unallocated as unused space under used?