But I heard ext4 was more stable. What are the trade offs?

Thanks

How do I set that up?

Like what?

I didn’t need home folder snapshots.

Am I doing something wrong? Not seeing a particular option? I have never seen or experienced what you’re describing.

Thanks!

Thanks I think this is the answer I was looking for!

Thanks!

Alright, thanks, I’ll try some experiments the next time I have the opportunity to do so.

Makes sense, thanks.

In my next reinstall, can I combine the / and swap partitions (they’re next to each other so I can do this) and will swap files just be automatically created instead?

How about when I need to reinstall the OS? Will overwriting / not touch /home like with my current set up?

How about when I reinstall the OS? Will it only affect the / and not touch the /home?

I use btrfs for my / because I can use Linux Mint’s Timeshift tool to make snapshots, but I don’t want snapshots of /home to be included. Am I doing this wrong?

Also, if I don’t indicate a swap partition during install, would the OS use swap files automatically?

Alright, but actually I don’t think I’m maximizing my use of btrfs. I only use btrfs because of its compatibility with Linux Mint’s Timeshift tool. Would you be implying if I used btrfs for the whole partition, I can reinstall / without overwriting /home?

I have daily backups for brtfs but for my / only via Linux Mint’s Timeshift. I do manual backups for some of my home folders every week. I take it the backups you mention would be lost over a reinstall?

is this daily backup in-built in SSDs or is that a manual thing?

Really? Default for Linux Mint has / and /home in one partition. So reinstalling erases /home as well.