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  • I am still looking into the first suggestion--initramfs (as you said) is a bit complex--but that might work the best. The second option is more complected. For upgrades I would typically just dd over the root partition device and reboot. With btrfs subvolumes I would have to restore a snapshot and move the root file system. Seems like it would be as messy as the first option. Commented Jul 29, 2023 at 19:20
  • True. The benefit of the second option, that it is more or less one filesystem and one partition is indeed a problem when you want to "dd replace" the partition and keep a part of the existing. Commented Jul 29, 2023 at 19:24