Comment # 6 on bug 1228772 from Lassi Väätämöinen

(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #5)
> (In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #4)
> > 
> > In any other situation (like creating a new partition for the root
> > filesystem), the checkbox for snapshots at the Expert Partitioner works as
> > defined by the product.
> 
> That's honored even when using the option "import mount points" to reinstall
> on top of a previous openSUSE system.


In that particular case the .snapshots volume probably has been created in the
previous system.

If you are for example installing on an existing BTRFS partition that does
*not* have a snapshots partition  (and /etc/fstab not containing .snapshots
mount?), the snapshot volume won't be created.