@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Post #1865029
2026-02-22 20:04 UTC
@esther_alter
Are you saying you often reinstall your distro and just keep /home? You should be able to do that with btrfs subvolumes, with a subvolume setup like this:
/home - your home folder
/distro1 - the root where you install one distro; contains etc, usr, and so on
/distro2 - the root where you install another distro
Then you install distro 1 into the /distro1 subvolume, mount that as its root file system, and mount the home subvolume on distro 1's /home.
Does that make sense?
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@esther_alter@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 20:10
@argv_minus_one yeah that makes sense 👍 but that’s not that different than having multiple partitions, right? I feel like in this one case dd would’ve been harder to do because I wouldn’t needed to free up space for cloning every sub volume?