grub-btrfs(8) System Manager's Manual grub-btrfs(8) NAME grub-btrfs - Automatically add btrfs-Snapshots as a Grub submenu SYNOPSIS /etc/grub.d/41_snapshots-btrfs [-V, --version] DESCRIPTION Improves grub by adding "btrfs snapshots" to the grub menu. You can boot your system on a "snapshot" from the grub menu. Supports manual snapshots, snapper and timeshift. Features of grub-btrfs: -- Automatically list snapshots existing on root partition (btrfs). -- Automatically detect if /boot is in separate partition. -- Automatically detect kernel, initramfs and intel/amd microcode in /boot directory on snapshots. -- Automatically create corresponding "menuentry" in grub.cfg -- Automatically detect the type/tags and descriptions/comments of snapper/timeshift snapshots. -- Automatically generate grub.cfg if you use the provided systemd service. CONFIGURATION grub-btrfs is configured via the file /etc/default/grub-btrfs/config. Possible options are: GENERAL GRUB_BTRFS_DISABLE Disable grub-btrfs if true. -- Default: "false" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_DISABLE="true" GRUB_BTRFS_TITLE_FORMAT The snapshot entries submenu in Grub are added according to this line. It is possible to change to order of the fields. -- Default: ("date" "snapshot" "type" "description") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_TITLE_FORMAT=("date" "snapshot" "type" "description") GRUB_BTRFS_LIMIT Maximum number of snapshots in the GRUB snapshots sub menu. -- Default: "50" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_LIMIT="50" GRUB_BTRFS_SUBVOLUME_SORT Sort the found subvolumes by "ogeneration" or "generation" or "path" or "rootid". -- See Sorting section in btrfs-subvolume(8) "-rootid" means list snapshot by new ones first. -- Default: "-rootid" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_SUBVOLUME_SORT="+ogen,-gen,path,rootid" GRUB_BTRFS_SHOW_SNAPSHOTS_FOUND Show snapshots found during run "grub-mkconfig" -- Default: "true" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_SHOW_SNAPSHOTS_FOUND="false" GRUB_BTRFS_ROOTFLAGS Comma separated mount options to be used when booting a snapshot. They can be defined here as well as in the "/" line inside the respective snapshots' "/etc/fstab" files. Mount options found in both places are combined, and this variable takes priority over `fstab` entries. NB: Do NOT include "subvol=..." or "subvolid=..." here. -- Default: "" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_ROOTFLAGS="space_cache,commit=10,norecovery" GRUB_BTRFS_OVERRIDE_BOOT_PARTITION_DETECTION By default "grub-btrfs" automatically detects your boot partition, either located at the system root or on a separate partition or in a subvolume, Change to "true" if your boot partition is not detected as separate. -- Default: "false" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_OVERRIDE_BOOT_PARTITION_DETECTION="true" GRUB_BTRFS_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK Enable booting from snapshots stored on LUKS encrypted devices -- Default: "false" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK="true" CUSTOM KERNELS GRUB_BTRFS_NKERNEL / GRUB_BTRFS_NINIT / GRUB_BTRFS_CUSTOM_MICROCODE By default, "grub-btrfs" automatically detects most existing kernels, initramfs and microcode. Customs kernel, initramfs and microcodes that are not detected can be added in these variables. -- Default: ("") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_NKERNEL=("kernel-5.19.4-custom" "vmlinux-5.19.4-custom") GRUB_BTRFS_NINIT=("initramfs-5.19.4-custom.img" "initrd-5.19.4-custom.img" "otherinit-5.19.4-custom.gz") GRUB_BTRFS_CUSTOM_MICROCODE=("custom-ucode.img" "custom-uc.img "custom_ucode.cpio") GRUB_BTRFS_SNAPSHOT_KERNEL_PARAMETERS Additional kernel command line parameters that should be passed to the kernelwhen booting a snapshot. For dracut based distros this could be useful to pass "rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1" or "rd.live.overlay.readonly=1" to the Kernel for booting read only snapshots. -- Default: "" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_SNAPSHOT_KERNEL_PARAMETERS="rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1" SNAPSHOT FILTERING GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SPECIFIC_PATH Ignore specific path during run "grub-mkconfig". Only exact paths are ignored. e.g : if `specific path` = @, only `@` snapshot will be ignored. -- Default: ("@") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SPECIFIC_PATH=("@home") GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_PREFIX_PATH Ignore prefix path during run "grub-mkconfig". Any path starting with the specified string will be ignored. e.g : if `prefix path` = @, all snapshots beginning with "@/..." will be ignored. -- Default: ("var/lib/docker" "@var/lib/docker" "@/var/lib/docker") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_PREFIX_PATH=("var/lib/docker" "@var/lib/docker" "@/var/lib/docker") GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE Ignore specific type/tag of snapshot during run "grub-mkconfig". For snapper: Type = single, pre, post. For Timeshift: Tag = boot, ondemand, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. -- Default: ("") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE=("ondemand") GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SNAPSHOT_DESCRIPTION Ignore specific description of snapshot during run "grub-mkconfig". -- Default: ("") -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_IGNORE_SNAPSHOT_DESCRIPTION=("timeline") DISTRIBUTION DEPENDENT SETTINGS GRUB_BTRFS_BOOT_DIRNAME Location of kernels/initramfs/microcode. Used by "grub-btrfs" to detect the boot partition and the location of kernels, initramfs and microcodes. -- Default: "/boot" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_BOOT_DIRNAME="/" GRUB_BTRFS_GRUB_DIRNAME Location of the folder containing the "grub.cfg" file. Might be grub2 on some systems. For example, on Fedora with EFI : "/boot/efi/EFI/fedora" -- Default: "/boot/grub" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_GRUB_DIRNAME="/boot/grub2" GRUB_BTRFS_GBTRFS_DIRNAME Location where grub-btrfs.cfg should be saved. Some distributions (like OpenSuSE) store those file at the snapshot directory instead of boot. Be aware that this directory must be available for grub during startup of the system. -- Default: $GRUB_BTRFS_GRUB_DIRNAME -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_GBTRFS_DIRNAME="/.snapshots" GRUB_BTRFS_GBTRFS_SEARCH_DIRNAME Location of the directory where Grub searches for the grub-btrfs.cfg file. Some distributions (like OpenSuSE) store those file at the snapshot directory instead of boot. Be aware that this directory must be available for grub during startup of the system. -- Default: "prefix}" (This is a grub variable that resolves to where grub is installed. (like /boot/grub, /boot/efi/grub)) -- NOTE: If variables of grub are used here like ${prefix}, they need to be escaped with `$` before the `$` -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_GBTRFS_SEARCH_DIRNAME="prefix}" GRUB_BTRFS_MKCONFIG Name/path of the command to generate the grub menu, used by "grub- btrfs.service" Might be 'grub2-mkconfig' on some systems (e.g. Fedora) Default paths are /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin, if your path is missing, report it on the upstream project. You can use the name of the command only or full the path. -- Default: grub-mkconfig -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_MKCONFIG=/sbin/grub2-mkconfig GRUB_BTRFS_SCRIPT_CHECK Name of grub-script-check command, used by "grub-btrfs" Might be 'grub2-script-check' on some systems (e.g. Fedora) -- Default: grub-script-check -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_SCRIPT_CHECK=grub2-script-check GRUB_BTRFS_MKCONFIG_LIB Path of grub-mkconfiglib file, used by "grub-btrfs" Might be '/usr/share/grub2/grub-mkconfiglib' on some systems (e.g. Opensuse) -- Default: /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfiglib -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_MKCONFIG_LIB=/usr/share/grub2/grub-mkconfig_lib SECURITY GRUB_BTRFS_PROTECTION_AUTHORIZED_USERS Password protection management for submenu, snapshots Refer to the Grub documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Authentication- and-authorisation and this comment https://github.com/Antynea/grub- btrfs/issues/95#issuecomment-682295660 Add authorized usernames separate by comma (userfoo,userbar). When Grub's password protection is enabled, the superuser is authorized by default, it is not necessary to add it -- Default: "" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_PROTECTION_AUTHORIZED_USERS="userfoo,userbar" GRUB_BTRFS_DISABLE_PROTECTION_SUBMENU Disable authentication support for submenu of Grub-btrfs only (--unrestricted) does not work if GRUBBTRFSPROTECTIONAUTHORIZEDUSERS is not empty -- Default: "false" -- Example: GRUB_BTRFS_DISABLE_PROTECTION_SUBMENU="true" FILES /etc/default/grub-btrfs/config SEE ALSO btrfs(8) btrfs-subvolume(8) grub-btrfsd(8) grub-mkconfig(8) COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2022 Pascal Jager grub-btrfs(8)