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shawn | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Arch + btrfs + grub + snapshots — no problem. 

Is this you? Sats for your service.

I borked my bootloader, and can’t seem to sort it out. DM if interested. 🙏🏻
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noerms | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Why not do a clean reinstall?

I don’t know arch but with ubuntu this works quite well when /home is on a separate partition
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 btrfs 😬 i’ve only trusted zfs with my data
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shawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I tried zfs, but it seemed to be a memory hog. Makes sense for servers.
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It uses all available memory (arc) but purges it out under memory pressure
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matt | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Modern btrfs is fine (more likely to catch a hardware error than lose your data). It was bad like a decade ago but…
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 thats good to know, i’ve heard bad stories in the past
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 the older i get the simpler i like it... ext4, ubuntu, manual backups using `cp -rfvpu` (reminds me, i need to make a weekly reminder thing to not forget)
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shawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeh, that’s the daily driver. My mess around Thinkpad is more bleeding edge.
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Len AKA The Lengend⚡ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 this might be the exact same issue you are having? 

https://www.reddit.com/r/arch/s/xkL9lMWy0q
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shawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Looks similar, but no simple fix.
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Len AKA The Lengend⚡ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Are you able to boot into it and reinstall grub?
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shawn | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yes, but the devil’s in the details. Doesn’t recognize /boot as vfat.
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Len AKA The Lengend⚡ | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Post on the Arch subreddit and hopefully someone is able to guide you in the proper direction