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AI-generatedTimeshift pre-update snapshot abort when the system partition lacks free space in Linux Mint Update Manager
Linux Mint's Update Manager can invoke Timeshift before applying updates, but snapshot creation aborts when the root partition lacks free space or the filesystem is unsupported. On ext4, snapshots rely on rsync and hard links, which consume more time and space than BTRFS subvolume copies and are more likely to hit capacity limits. Timeshift defaults to exclu