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What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions (itsfoss.com)

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[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

btrfs subvolumes are cool, but I'll still take partitions for separation. The whole point of having a separate home partition is that it's separate from / if we have to, say, reinstall the OS, or the filesystem breaks or whatever.

sure it might be possible to install an OS into a btrfs subvolume without wiping other subvolumes, but do I wanna risk it? Nah.

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[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

I like to create partitions with specific max sizes, you can't do that with btrfs subvolumes unfortunately. It is possible to set a quota but that can have a major performance impact with btrfs so it is not really a valid Option.

Thats why I shy away from using btrfs subvolumes.

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