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I want to be able to format my system without formatting my home, I know I can keep them seperate partitions but I would prefer if I can have dynamic sizes of each, can I achieve that by creating a sub volume for each? Would I be able to distrohop without removing my home while keeping the sizes dynamic? I never sat up a BTRFS before so I'm clueless

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't format, just create separate subvolumes for the distros and keep the home subvolume mounted on each root then delete the root subvolume of the distros you don't want when you're done with them.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

This looks like the way, I like it!