Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 5:39 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 5:48 AM Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > > > I noticed another thread about subvolumes already exists, I'm starting > > this one for the very specific topic of installing multiple root > > filesystems as subvolumes > > > >

Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 3:48 AM Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > I noticed another thread about subvolumes already exists, I'm starting > this one for the very specific topic of installing multiple root > filesystems as subvolumes > > Examples: Fedora 33 in one subvolume, Fedora rawhide in another > sub

Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-19 Thread James Szinger
On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:48:18 +0200 Daniel Pocock wrote: > I noticed another thread about subvolumes already exists, I'm starting > this one for the very specific topic of installing multiple root > filesystems as subvolumes > > Examples: Fedora 33 in one subvolume, Fedora rawhide in another > su

Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-19 Thread Björn Persson
Daniel Pocock wrote: > All these OS installs would shared some things like /home That would be likely to break various user programs. Sometimes a program – for example an email client – changes its internal file format or directory layout. When the new version sees the old format, it concludes tha

Re: btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-19 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 5:48 AM Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > I noticed another thread about subvolumes already exists, I'm starting > this one for the very specific topic of installing multiple root > filesystems as subvolumes > > Examples: Fedora 33 in one subvolume, Fedora rawhide in another > sub

btrfs / booting alternative OS versions from subvolumes

2020-09-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
I noticed another thread about subvolumes already exists, I'm starting this one for the very specific topic of installing multiple root filesystems as subvolumes Examples: Fedora 33 in one subvolume, Fedora rawhide in another subvolume, Fedora 33 32-bit in another subvolume, maybe RHEL in a subvo