Btrfs system crash, howto recover?

[Kobold]

@birdibird

But somehow haven’t come accross the out-of-space at that time.

This is the default rule, which included for all filesystems.

[birdibird]

Sure, but with other file systems, having 12,3 GB free doesn’t give the problem that in reality that amount is actually not available. So, that might be a good reason not to choose btrfs

[Molski]

@birdibird

@Molski
The strange thing is that I do see the older snapshots in the timeshift and timeshift-btrfs folders. If I boot into the liveusb I can see them in the Timeshift gui, but clicking restore there doesn’t give me a bootable solution.

Good idea indeed to up the maxSnapshots. I will do that.

Yikes, I can’t keep up with everything.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon on Timeshift’s end, but you can’t use the restore button if you have booted a snapshot through grub-brtfs. The package that just detects read/write snapshots and puts them in your grub menu.

It will appear to work, but does make a mess of your volumes.

But fear not, it’s pretty easy to restore it through the terminal, when booting a snapshot, or from booting a live image.

[Wollie]

@birdibird

The kernels had no problems: 6.8 and 6.10 both booted fine.

Kernel 6.8 is no longer supported, remove it! You should follow Announcements for your branch.

[birdibird]

Thanks, yes I know, I am booting into 6.10, 6.8 was just still there and I have removed it now.