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Is the amount of snapshots limited to 50? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Freakazoid@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Hello guys,

I've been using Cachyos for like a year or so; I switched to it after daily driving Mint for 2 years. With CachyOS, I installed limine and Btrfs. The reason being that I like its snapshot capabilities. I was just minding my own business and booting my system like normal. But I decided to check out the snapshots.

There I noticed that the newer snapshots were missing. So I booted the system like usual and opened Btrfs Assistant. Then I went to the tab called 'snapper' and saw that the last rule had the value 50 (see screenshot). It told me my boot partition was running out of space, so for now, I would like to limit the number of snapshots to keep. (Too lazy to perform a boot partition resize right now.)

My question is, does that number 50 represent the number of total snapshots my OS tries to make/keep?

I will increase the boot partition when I have time (if needed).

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thank you for your detailed response, the clesnup processen was already enabled :)