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What Are Btrfs Subvolumes? And Why They’re Better Than Traditional Linux Partitions (itsfoss.com)
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[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I have installed an OS onto just the btrfs root subvolume, leaving the home directory intact. This is how I originally swapped from Manjaro to Arch. The arch manual install instructions helped.

But this should be a feature of the graphical installers imo.

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