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[โ€“] Turun@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you want to you can just create a new subvolume, mount it temporarily and move all your files from root to there. Then you need to figure out how to make the new subvolume your root directory upon boot and you are done.

[โ€“] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I know how to do that, you set the subvolume as the default one, thus, when mounting, if no options are passed, it always mounts that subvolume as root.

But, you have to disable that. Sure, I set it during install, cuz installers are stupid (if you tell it to install in /@, it will most probably moan), but disable it after first run (set the real root as the default subvol, i.e. mount point) and just add subvol mount options in fstab.

It's just extra steps I have to do now ๐Ÿ˜’, that's why the rant.