Can't enable grub-btrfs.service

[Schievel1]

Discussed in #280

^{Originally posted by tav9122 April 26, 2023}
As the title says, when I run systemctl enable grub-btrfs.path I got the output Unit btrfs.path does not exist

I couldn't find snapshots menu in the grub boot so I checked with the systemctl status, do you have any idea what cause this

[Schievel1]

Try running grub-btrfsd with verbose flag and/or manually. It will give you more info what is wrong.
See:
https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs#running-grub-btrfsd-in-verbose-mode

If you are running grub-btrfsd as a daemon, the output will be printed to syslog. On Arch you can use journalctl -f to watch the syslog.

[tav1229]

Try running grub-btrfsd with verbose flag and/or manually. It will give you more info what is wrong.
See:
https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs#running-grub-btrfsd-in-verbose-mode

If you are running grub-btrfsd as a daemon, the output will be printed to syslog. On Arch you can use journalctl -f to watch the syslog.

turned out I was missing the inotify-tools, I added the packeage now but still no snapshots menu in grub, below is the output of systemctl status grub-btrfsd

[tav1229]

Try running grub-btrfsd with verbose flag and/or manually. It will give you more info what is wrong.
See:
https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs#running-grub-btrfsd-in-verbose-mode

If you are running grub-btrfsd as a daemon, the output will be printed to syslog. On Arch you can use journalctl -f to watch the syslog.

turned out I was missing the inotify-tools, I added the packeage now but still no snapshots menu in grub, below is the output of systemctl status grub-btrfsd

turned out I need to run grub-mkconfig -o /etc/grub/grub.cfg at least once

[Schievel1]

So this can be closed?

[tav1229]

So this can be closed?

Yup, sorry couldn't find the close button on my phone

[Salman7236]

I think it will be better to make inotify-tools a required dependency when installing grub-btrfs to avoid people opening the same issues in the future. Or at least display a note to the user after installation that says something like, "Please install inotify-tools to enable auto-generation of grub.cfg".