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Is there a standard approach, when using snapper on btrfs, to exclude directories under users' home folders? Say... ~/.cache/yay
on Arch. Or possibly even ~/.cache
as a whole.
Of course, I know the SOP is to create a subvolume any time you want a folder's contents excluded from a snapshot of a subvolume higher in the mounted folder hierarchy. But that means making a subvolume for each excluded folder under ~/
each time a user is added. Which is, in addition to getting messy to maintain, quite a few extra steps on top of normal user creation.
I suppose I could create wrapper scripts for useradd
and userdel
and toss them in /usr/local/sbin
so they take priority. But I thought I'd see if there isn't a more elegant approach.
Context
It's not critical. The only system I currently have snapper deployed on is a home gateway and it's unlikely to ever have more than one non-root user. But it would be nice to know for the future.
subvolumes (excluding existing snapshots):
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /
ID 258 gen 33625 top level 5 path home
ID 262 gen 33553 top level 5 path opt
ID 264 gen 33555 top level 5 path var-www
ID 266 gen 33630 top level 5 path arch
ID 267 gen 33631 top level 5 path var-log
ID 268 gen 33566 top level 5 path pacman-cache
ID 270 gen 45 top level 266 path var/lib/portables
ID 271 gen 46 top level 266 path var/lib/machines
ID 274 gen 33566 top level 266 path .snapshots
ID 276 gen 33556 top level 258 path home/.snapshots
ID 278 gen 33556 top level 262 path opt/.snapshots
ID 279 gen 33556 top level 264 path var-www/.snapshots
/etc/fstab:
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=266,subvol=/arch,subvol=arch 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=274,subvol=/arch/.snapshots,subvol=arch/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=27d5943f-e74d-480f-be46-a370c5b1f37f /boot ext4 rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 2
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/home,subvol=home 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/home/.snapshots,subvol=home/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=262,subvol=/opt,subvol=opt 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=278,subvol=/opt/.snapshots,subvol=opt/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/log btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=267,subvol=/var-log,subvol=var-log 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=264,subvol=/var-www,subvol=var-www 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=279,subvol=/var-www/.snapshots,subvol=var-www/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/cache/pacman/pkg btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=268,subvol=/pacman-cache,subvol=pacman-cache 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5415bf33-0a89-4a36-a224-27dbb4c43977 none swap defaults 0 0
btrfs home snapper
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Is there a standard approach, when using snapper on btrfs, to exclude directories under users' home folders? Say... ~/.cache/yay
on Arch. Or possibly even ~/.cache
as a whole.
Of course, I know the SOP is to create a subvolume any time you want a folder's contents excluded from a snapshot of a subvolume higher in the mounted folder hierarchy. But that means making a subvolume for each excluded folder under ~/
each time a user is added. Which is, in addition to getting messy to maintain, quite a few extra steps on top of normal user creation.
I suppose I could create wrapper scripts for useradd
and userdel
and toss them in /usr/local/sbin
so they take priority. But I thought I'd see if there isn't a more elegant approach.
Context
It's not critical. The only system I currently have snapper deployed on is a home gateway and it's unlikely to ever have more than one non-root user. But it would be nice to know for the future.
subvolumes (excluding existing snapshots):
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /
ID 258 gen 33625 top level 5 path home
ID 262 gen 33553 top level 5 path opt
ID 264 gen 33555 top level 5 path var-www
ID 266 gen 33630 top level 5 path arch
ID 267 gen 33631 top level 5 path var-log
ID 268 gen 33566 top level 5 path pacman-cache
ID 270 gen 45 top level 266 path var/lib/portables
ID 271 gen 46 top level 266 path var/lib/machines
ID 274 gen 33566 top level 266 path .snapshots
ID 276 gen 33556 top level 258 path home/.snapshots
ID 278 gen 33556 top level 262 path opt/.snapshots
ID 279 gen 33556 top level 264 path var-www/.snapshots
/etc/fstab:
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=266,subvol=/arch,subvol=arch 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=274,subvol=/arch/.snapshots,subvol=arch/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=27d5943f-e74d-480f-be46-a370c5b1f37f /boot ext4 rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 2
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/home,subvol=home 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/home/.snapshots,subvol=home/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=262,subvol=/opt,subvol=opt 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=278,subvol=/opt/.snapshots,subvol=opt/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/log btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=267,subvol=/var-log,subvol=var-log 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=264,subvol=/var-www,subvol=var-www 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=279,subvol=/var-www/.snapshots,subvol=var-www/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/cache/pacman/pkg btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=268,subvol=/pacman-cache,subvol=pacman-cache 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5415bf33-0a89-4a36-a224-27dbb4c43977 none swap defaults 0 0
btrfs home snapper
add a comment |
Is there a standard approach, when using snapper on btrfs, to exclude directories under users' home folders? Say... ~/.cache/yay
on Arch. Or possibly even ~/.cache
as a whole.
Of course, I know the SOP is to create a subvolume any time you want a folder's contents excluded from a snapshot of a subvolume higher in the mounted folder hierarchy. But that means making a subvolume for each excluded folder under ~/
each time a user is added. Which is, in addition to getting messy to maintain, quite a few extra steps on top of normal user creation.
I suppose I could create wrapper scripts for useradd
and userdel
and toss them in /usr/local/sbin
so they take priority. But I thought I'd see if there isn't a more elegant approach.
Context
It's not critical. The only system I currently have snapper deployed on is a home gateway and it's unlikely to ever have more than one non-root user. But it would be nice to know for the future.
subvolumes (excluding existing snapshots):
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /
ID 258 gen 33625 top level 5 path home
ID 262 gen 33553 top level 5 path opt
ID 264 gen 33555 top level 5 path var-www
ID 266 gen 33630 top level 5 path arch
ID 267 gen 33631 top level 5 path var-log
ID 268 gen 33566 top level 5 path pacman-cache
ID 270 gen 45 top level 266 path var/lib/portables
ID 271 gen 46 top level 266 path var/lib/machines
ID 274 gen 33566 top level 266 path .snapshots
ID 276 gen 33556 top level 258 path home/.snapshots
ID 278 gen 33556 top level 262 path opt/.snapshots
ID 279 gen 33556 top level 264 path var-www/.snapshots
/etc/fstab:
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=266,subvol=/arch,subvol=arch 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=274,subvol=/arch/.snapshots,subvol=arch/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=27d5943f-e74d-480f-be46-a370c5b1f37f /boot ext4 rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 2
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/home,subvol=home 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/home/.snapshots,subvol=home/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=262,subvol=/opt,subvol=opt 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=278,subvol=/opt/.snapshots,subvol=opt/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/log btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=267,subvol=/var-log,subvol=var-log 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=264,subvol=/var-www,subvol=var-www 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=279,subvol=/var-www/.snapshots,subvol=var-www/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/cache/pacman/pkg btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=268,subvol=/pacman-cache,subvol=pacman-cache 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5415bf33-0a89-4a36-a224-27dbb4c43977 none swap defaults 0 0
btrfs home snapper
Is there a standard approach, when using snapper on btrfs, to exclude directories under users' home folders? Say... ~/.cache/yay
on Arch. Or possibly even ~/.cache
as a whole.
Of course, I know the SOP is to create a subvolume any time you want a folder's contents excluded from a snapshot of a subvolume higher in the mounted folder hierarchy. But that means making a subvolume for each excluded folder under ~/
each time a user is added. Which is, in addition to getting messy to maintain, quite a few extra steps on top of normal user creation.
I suppose I could create wrapper scripts for useradd
and userdel
and toss them in /usr/local/sbin
so they take priority. But I thought I'd see if there isn't a more elegant approach.
Context
It's not critical. The only system I currently have snapper deployed on is a home gateway and it's unlikely to ever have more than one non-root user. But it would be nice to know for the future.
subvolumes (excluding existing snapshots):
$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /
ID 258 gen 33625 top level 5 path home
ID 262 gen 33553 top level 5 path opt
ID 264 gen 33555 top level 5 path var-www
ID 266 gen 33630 top level 5 path arch
ID 267 gen 33631 top level 5 path var-log
ID 268 gen 33566 top level 5 path pacman-cache
ID 270 gen 45 top level 266 path var/lib/portables
ID 271 gen 46 top level 266 path var/lib/machines
ID 274 gen 33566 top level 266 path .snapshots
ID 276 gen 33556 top level 258 path home/.snapshots
ID 278 gen 33556 top level 262 path opt/.snapshots
ID 279 gen 33556 top level 264 path var-www/.snapshots
/etc/fstab:
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=266,subvol=/arch,subvol=arch 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=274,subvol=/arch/.snapshots,subvol=arch/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=27d5943f-e74d-480f-be46-a370c5b1f37f /boot ext4 rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 2
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/home,subvol=home 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /home/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=276,subvol=/home/.snapshots,subvol=home/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=262,subvol=/opt,subvol=opt 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /opt/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=278,subvol=/opt/.snapshots,subvol=opt/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/log btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=267,subvol=/var-log,subvol=var-log 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=264,subvol=/var-www,subvol=var-www 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/www/.snapshots btrfs rw,nodev,noexec,noatime,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=279,subvol=/var-www/.snapshots,subvol=var-www/.snapshots 0 0
# /dev/sda6 LABEL=system
UUID=18f47506-31c6-4d22-939d-684ace61301f /var/cache/pacman/pkg btrfs rw,noatime,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zstd:3,ssd,space_cache,subvolid=268,subvol=/pacman-cache,subvol=pacman-cache 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=5415bf33-0a89-4a36-a224-27dbb4c43977 none swap defaults 0 0
btrfs home snapper
btrfs home snapper
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