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[FEATURE REQUEST] Add a recovery partition #54

Open amethystgosling163 opened 3 months ago

amethystgosling163 commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Since Snapper can't be included in OOTB, there is no way to easily restore the system to its default state or factory reset it without reinstalling from a Live USB, so a recovery partition should be included as not everyone has a Live USB hanging around to reinstall or fix a broken system.

Describe the solution you'd like Since Pop_OS! is the only distro that I know of that includes a recovery partition, I know of their support article on it that should give you some ideas on what it does, how to implement it, how it works and its usefulness better than I could ever explain.

Describe alternatives you've considered Include Snapper OOTB if the broken RPM transactions issue has been fixed by now and make it take a snapshot of the OS immediately after booting into a fresh install and call it "Initial State" or something else to indicate it is the initial state of the OS or it refreshes or resets the OS.

Additional context Vanilla OS is also going to include a recovery partition in the future. You can check their implementation if they have any by now which I don't think they have.

linear[bot] commented 3 months ago

FYRA-77 [FEATURE REQUEST] Add recovery partition

madonuko commented 2 months ago

Sorry for the late response, we had a discussion in linear and somehow it didn't sync to here.

Anyway, the main point is:

So the way Pop does it is essentially recreating the LiveISO, it's a squashfs

Generally an interesting idea, should be do-able (we just need installer/repair function from Readymade)

amethystgosling163 commented 2 months ago

Sorry for the late response, we had a discussion in linear and somehow it didn't sync to here.

Anyway, the main point is:

So the way Pop does it is essentially recreating the LiveISO, it's a squashfs

Generally an interesting idea, should be do-able (we just need installer/repair function from Readymade)

When it'll be done/ introduced, will I have to reinstall to get it or can I just upgrade and get it?

madonuko commented 2 months ago

My personal opinion is we'll have an option in our tweaks application / OOBE to generate one post-installation, but definitely not from just an upgrade.

If that's the case, then what you'll need to do is 1. perform a system upgrade; 2. install our tweaks app; 3. actually click the button to generate a recovery partition

amethystgosling163 commented 2 months ago

My personal opinion is we'll have an option in our tweaks application / OOBE to generate one post-installation, but definitely not from just an upgrade.

If that's the case, then what you'll need to do is 1. perform a system upgrade; 2. install our tweaks app; 3. actually click the button to generate a recovery partition

What tweaks application? Can you link me its github?

nothingneko commented 2 months ago

the other issue is that the user would have to modify their partition layout to fit in a recovery partition, we'd have to figure out how to do this live and it might mean only supporting btrfs installs

madonuko commented 2 months ago

What tweaks application? Can you link me its github?

https://github.com/Ultramarine-Linux/um

We haven't started cooking the GUI version yet, so it'll probably come in 42/43.