On Mon, 20. Aug 13:49, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > > ---- text added by mvmf mail filter ---- > > mvmda: regcomp failed. > mvmda: regcomp failed. > mvmda: regcomp failed. > > > ---- end of text added by mvmf mail filter ---- > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:53 AM, 1126 > <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello List! > > > > I can't seem to get rollback-support from mkinitcpio-btrfs to work > > properly. I've installed ArchLinux more or less like it is shown in the > > wiki-article btrfs-on-root: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_on_Btrfs_root > > > > I changed it some, because I wanted to install ArchLinux on an > > encrypted btrfs-root. > > > > But my root-partition contains a __snapshot folder and an __active > > subvolume, but no subvolumes for __home and __usr and such, because I > > want to be able to make complete snapshots of my system. > > > > But when I want to create a snapshot, it asks me where I want to do it, > > but I can't give __snapshot as target-folder, because it don't exists in > > my system... ;) > > > > So: how should my btrfs-root be mounted in order to be able to make full > > use of the rollback-feature provided by mkinitcpio-btrfs? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help, > > yeah ... someone or something completely botched that page, to where > it neither reflect the original design goals nor improves upon them. > far too much noise and pointlessness (like outbound links to FHS ... > who the @#$% cares?!) > > in short, you need something like this in fstab or equiv: > > /dev/disk/by-label/btrfs-root /var/lib/btrfs-root btrfs > defaults,noatime,subvolid=0 0 0 > > ... you need to mount `subvolid=0` or `subvolid=5` (same thing) > somewhere, and make snapshots from there. subvolid 5 (for which 0 is > an alias) is hard-coded to the top-level root. > > maybe try this: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Installing_on_Btrfs_root&oldid=185175 > Hey, thanks! I now can create snapshots in __snapshot (/var/lib/btrfs-root/__snapshot), but I can't use rollback ... Might this be due to boot with systemd? Greetings! > -- > > C Anthony
