Well, not a noob, more like an idiot 😂 EDIT: Yes, on the same drive as my Home folder, etc. And yes, technically they’re snapshots, not backups.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    12·
    3 days ago

    I think Timeshift has an option to only store n snapshots and to auto delete the oldest one if it’s hit n snapshots. Or at least that’s how my timeshift behaves but I set it up a while ago and don’t remember the details of how

    • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyzOP
      6·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, it does have an option to keep x amount of snapshots. But the ones that took all the room I had created manually. They were from like two years ago and so I clearly didn’t need them (Yes, I’ve been on the same Linux Mint installation for two years).

      • communism@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yes, I’ve been on the same Linux Mint installation for two years

        That’s good! You shouldn’t need to be reinstalling your OS all the time—a good operating system should be able to be installed once and the user not feel the need to reinstall or change it out for the duration of their hardware working. (2 years is also not that long anyway.)

        I suppose with your problem it’s not that bad as you can just have a quick look as to what’s taking up so much space and then delete accordingly. Perhaps Timeshift ought to automatically delete/rotate all snapshots except for ones the user explicitly says they want to keep, not just ones they made manually but might be fine with getting auto deleted.