[–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

My Google fu these days is crap. But the concept is this:

  1. Get an external HD, format it to ext4.
  2. Copy your /home to it.
  3. Make a backup of anything else you find valuable.
  4. Use the distro installer to erase your / filesystem and create another in its place with Btrfs and at least two volumes: one @home and one @.

Instead of relying on the installer for that (many nowadays are simplified and don't offer much options), I like to use a live GParted ISO. The live GParted is a disk recovery/maintenance mini distro that has friendly graphical tools. You put it on a thumb drive keep it around just in case. And it can be used to create new filesystems like above.

Oh, BTW, keep your LVM+LUKS encryption setup. Not a time to be messing with that.

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