http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093372
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093372#c33
Richard Brown
1. Will /home get formatted on a fresh installation?
Yes, just as /var does, or /opt, or /usr/local, and /etc, and all the other locations on the filesystem which does have user-supplied information. We've never optimised for 'reinstallation'. We have perfectly good in place upgrade options, and any user doing an installation should always, always backup all of the above locations and any other which include data they might want post-installation. That said, it's a simple tick box in the guided installer to have a separate /home partition for those that prefer the old behaviour.
2. Do we have a reasonable GUI to remove less important snapshots in out-of-disk situation? I mean something that would show what is archived by which snapshot and how much space each snapshot blocks.
YaST2 snapper does all of the above besides "how much space each snapshot blocks", because the nature of CoW prevents it. Think of it this way: deleting one snapshot that currently blocks a lot of space, doesn't necessarily reclaim all that space, because when other (previously smaller, as CoW snapshots only retain diffs) snapshot now references all the data previously 'owned' by the old 'larger' snapshot. We have advanced built-in, automatic, deletion of snapshots based space in use. It needs a certain amount of space for the process to work properly and reliably. With these new defaults I expect the topic of snapshot space in use will be far less of a concern to far fewer people. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.