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Fedora BTRFS+Snapper - The Fedora 41 Edition

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

History

It’s a new year and it has been 5 years since the last time I updated this blog post series. This time I’m updating to Fedora 41 and also bringing forward a lot of changes I’ve made over the last 5 years.

As mentioned previously for now I’m using Fedora Silverblue on my laptop systems and continuing with a BTRFS+snapper setup for my desktop. This series describes the BTRFS+snapper setup.

In the past I have documented this setup and all the steps I took in detail for Fedora 22 (part1 and part2), 24, 25, 27, 29 and 31. This is a condensed continuation of those posts for Fedora 41, but there are a few changes I’ve made.

Fedora BTRFS+Snapper - The Fedora 31 Edition

Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

History

It’s almost 2020. Fedora 31 came out a month back and I’m just getting around to converting my desktop system to Fedora 31. As mentioned before, for my laptop systems I’ve moved on to Fedora Silverblue. As I continue to containerize my workflows I’m moving more and more of my daily workflows into Flatpaks from the Fedora registry, pet containers (via toolbox) and, single purpose containers. As I continue to convert my workflows into containers I’ll stick with the BTRFS+snapper setup for my desktop system, which still has the benefits of being able to snapshot and rollback the entire system by leveraging BTRFS snapshots, and a tool called snapper.

Fedora BTRFS+Snapper - The Fedora 29 Edition

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

History

It’s 2019 and I’m just getting around to converting my desktop system to Fedora 29. For my work laptop I’ve moved on to Fedora Silverblue (previously known as Atomic Workstation) and will probably move my desktop there soon too as I’ve had a good experience so far. For now I’ll stick my desktop system to this old setup with BTRFS+snapper where I am able to snapshot and rollback the entire system by leveraging BTRFS snapshots, and a tool called snapper.

Fedora BTRFS+Snapper - The Fedora 27 Edition

Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

History

I’m back again with the Fedora 27 edition of my Fedora BTRFS+Snapper series. As you know, in the past I have configured my computers to be able to snapshot and rollback the entire system by leveraging BTRFS snapshots, a tool called snapper, and a patched version of Fedora’s grub2 package. I have some great news this time! You no longer need a patched version of Fedora’s grub package in order to pull this off. Recently Fedora developer Peter Jones, Fedora contributor Neal Gompa and I got together and managed to get these patches into Fedora’s grub.