btrfs

Just found your distro and want to give it a spin but...........................

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• demm replied Sep 24, 2023

• I just ran across your Distro and it Seems impressive but I have a couple of questions. I'm watching a video review and when your installer gets to partitioning there is no replace par...

[Feature Request] BTRFS support as an option for Calamares installer

Why does KaOS use XFS?

• Userspacebtrfs
• demm replied Oct 5, 2022

• Hi,

  Can someone explain why KaOS has chose XFS over ext4 or btrfs? I am very curious to know why this would be better for a desktop distro

Back to Kaos

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• demm replied Apr 10, 2022

• I think go back to Kaos, is she still alive for a long time?
  now i use opensuse tumbleweed. I think snapper could miss me. I think snapshot are a good idea for a rollingrelease. Have a good day...

Want to install KaOS as triple boot.

btrfs and ssd optimization

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• Antonio1975 replied Apr 13, 2020

• hi all. Reading the doc about installation of KaOS with a btrfs on ssd, the /etc/fstab in example put the option discard when mount /. i have read, in other docs, discard is obsolete for the modern...

fully manual operation to boot into btrfs subvolume

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• bequimão replied Oct 18, 2019

• given that both snapper and timeshift are broken in KCP for years, one is left with manual snapshooting via

  btrfs subvol snapshot
  and some editing of the grub.cfg lines. ...

snapper build problems solved, but …

• Technical IssuesCreating Packages, using KCPSolvedbtrfs
• gaga started Oct 17, 2019

• Okt 17 13:29:17 <HOSTNAME> systemd-coredump[863]: Process 861 (snapperd) of user 0 dumped core.

  dbus-launch was helpful in this situation. I think its kinda risky to snapshot with an ...

Booting fails with btrfs

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• adurol started Nov 24, 2018

• TLDR: the kernel command line is missing the rootflags=subvol=@

  If you currently (KaOS 2018.10 ISO) install KaOS with btrfs, you will get an error soun...

EFI + Btrfs | KaOS is not able to boot

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• demm replied Jul 28, 2017

• Hi KaOS Forum,

  my name is Nick and I am a long time Arch Linux user.

  I came to try KaOS, because I love Plasma 5 and Arch Linux and always use Btrfs for Snapshots and Rollback and y...

Best partitioning for ssd

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• th3g3ntl3m4n replied Jun 9, 2017

• Hello to everyone, i just mounted an ssd on my laptop, i have already tried kaos making a quick install for the first time, i did not use the manual partition but i did do all the work at calamares...

ERROR : Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist.

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• bequimão replied Feb 22, 2017

• Hey guys,

  here it is:

  ERROR : Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist.

  so what did i do so far?

  • Set up KaOs via the latest...

Backup Program

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• Grahf replied Sep 11, 2016

• Hi Does anyone backup their system? If so, how do you do i...

grub-install /dev/sda returned non-zero exit status 1

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• maruru replied Sep 5, 2016

• BIOS, GPT, BTRFS, using custom partitioning with two partitions (one primary root, one swap). Did I miss a flag or anything else?

  I tried to install grub manually (using the Gentoo manual),...

Attempt to clone KaOS to btrfs and LVM

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• demm replied Jun 3, 2016