After 12 hours, I am going for a clean install of Manjaro. I have 1TB hard disk. I am considering following partition
sda1 —> 300mb — FAT32 — /boot/efi
sda2 —> 90GB — BTRFS — /
sda3 —> 900GB BTRFS — /home
sda4 —> 9GB — Swap
Comments or links to guidance are sought for incremental backup of / & /home :
- Is it possible to keep system snapshots on sda2, and /home snapshots on sda3?
- Is btrfs good for reliable snapshots?
- Is timeshift good for reliable snapshots?
My system information
System:
Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
root=UUID=2e646780-2ffb-409b-b567-fb0780bd7300 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
apparmor=1 security=apparmor
resume=UUID=2b349ccd-c725-40e4-927d-e49c60e5a66a udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.4 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81D2 v: Lenovo ideapad 330-15ARR
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo ideapad 330-15ARR
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0Q55724 WIN
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: 7VCN46WW date: 12/10/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.6 Wh (97.6%) condition: 25.2/35.0 Wh (72.1%)
volts: 8.3 min: 7.6 model: LGC L17L2PF0 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
status: N/A
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.38 GiB used: 4.99 GiB (67.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Zen family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x11 (17) stepping: 0
microcode: 0x810100B
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 192 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x64 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 2x512 KiB
L3: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1516 high: 1656 min/max: 1600/2500 boost: enabled
scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1395 2: 1457
3: 1656 4: 1557 bogomips: 19969
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
bmi2 bpext clflush clflushopt clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid
cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid
fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm
mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc
nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse
pse36 rapl rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sep sev sev_es sha_ni skinit smap
smca sme smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 succor svm svm_lock
syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme
vmmcall wdt xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: IMC Networks EasyCamera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1:2
chip-ID: 13d3:5a02 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: AU Optronics 0x38ed built: 2014
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42 5.15.41-1-MANJARO)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.6
chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.41-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 3-2:3 chip-ID: 0bda:c024 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 210.75 GiB (22.6%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 3E scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 922.42 GiB (100.00%)
used: 209.73 GiB (22.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 2e646780-2ffb-409b-b567-fb0780bd7300
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 568 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: B8BC-E27B
ID-3: /home raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 922.42 GiB (100.00%)
used: 209.73 GiB (22.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 2e646780-2ffb-409b-b567-fb0780bd7300
ID-4: /var/cache raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 922.42 GiB (100.00%)
used: 209.73 GiB (22.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 2e646780-2ffb-409b-b567-fb0780bd7300
ID-5: /var/log raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 922.42 GiB (100.00%)
used: 209.73 GiB (22.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: 2e646780-2ffb-409b-b567-fb0780bd7300
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (11.5%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: swap
uuid: 2b349ccd-c725-40e4-927d-e49c60e5a66a
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: IMC Networks EasyCamera type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 13d3:5a02
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0bda:c024 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 50.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 263 Uptime: 18h 33m wakeups: 60185 Init: systemd v: 250
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: 1334
pacman: 1325 lib: 368 flatpak: 0 snap: 9 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.16