Since BTRFS is becoming the default file system for Manjaro, are there any plans on making it possible to use the manjaro-chroot -a on BTRFS?
It might be a good time for users to extend themselves and learn the fully manual approach. The general procedure is already mentioned in at least one tutorial; this one, for example:
Anecdotal; I imagine a script tailored for the purpose could be created – if someone steps up to create it – but I dare say, it might not be quite as simple as it seems, at face value.
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I’ve read that post and it’s certainly doable but far from straight forward. I can understand that rewriting manjaro-chroot to support BTRFS might be a major undertaking, though.
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garuda-chroot -a works on Garuda Linux, which has the BTRFS file system by default.
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It has always worked, it’s just that the automatic option (-a) doesn’t work.
You just need to mount your root volume manually (and most likely .../boot/efi) before the command.
Then you call:
manjaro-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
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Just having to mount the root/EFI certainly makes it easier. I didn’t question that it’s working though, it’s just the simplicity of using manjaro-chroot -a that I’m missing but, hey-ho, no biggie.
That’s interesting, maybe Manjaro devs could borrow a line or two in the spirit of open source. 
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