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How do i get snapper to work on arch

Hi everyone, hope you guys have a nice day! Long story short. I hop from opensuse tumbleweed to arch recently. I want to setup snapper so it work like on opensuse just to be safe. Even on opensuse the rolling release did kill my system few time. I run into this part on the arch wiki.

Note: If you are using the suggested Btrfs partition layout from archinstall then the @.snapshots subvolume will already be mounted to /.snapshots, and the snapper create-config command will fail [1]. To use the @.snapshots subvolume for Snapper backups, do the following: 

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        Unmount the @.snapshots subvolume and delete the existing mountpoint.
    Create the Snapper config.
    Delete the subvolume created by Snapper.
    Re-create the /.snapshots mount point and re-mount the @.snapshots subvolume.

I did installed arch via archinstall but I am not really experience with the btrfs files system nor mount or unmount stuff so as I expected I killed my system. I reinstalled arch and not sure how to setup snapper without pull my hair out again. Any help would be appreciate thank!

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  • Use BTRFS Assistant, so easy to use.

    • That was my initial plan but like the arch wiki said it cant use snapper unless i figure out how to do this 

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              Unmount the @.snapshots subvolume and delete the existing mountpoint.
    Create the Snapper config.
    Delete the subvolume created by Snapper.
    Re-create the /.snapshots mount point and re-mount the @.snapshots subvolume.

      which i cant do because i am kinda dumb :)

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