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Check out https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ ; it uses zfs, but should be easy enough to adapt to your use-case.
I've been happily using impermanence for well over a year now, with BTRFS under my persistent volume on most hosts (and tmpfs for
/, because that was easier, and I don't need the safety of having snapshots of my impermanent stuff), and it gets me that great freshly installed system feeling on every boot, and incredibly convenient backups.Can recommend.