Hi. Since a couple of updates (basically, it happened after my summer vacation — maybe it’s a karma thing for leaving my PC unattended for almost one month…), every update became slow because there is a mysterious, 0-size timeshift snapshot that fails to be deleted. The relevant log is this (inxi da…

So, I am disabling the quota. What I did is: Check that quotas are really enabled: > sudo btrfs qgroup show . if you have a list, quotas are enabled. If you have stale qgroups, you can remove them with > sudo btrfs qgroup clear-stale . That did not speed up the update process. So then I tried t…

Timeshift very slow on updates

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Phemisters 7 September 2025 18:38 2

This looks similar to a problem reported elsewhere related to btrfs quotas. I have never used quotas, but if you have them enabled maybe you need to do something with them to prevent this issue.

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