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I've done that before when debugging system issues. Create a snapshot before and after the issue, and diff the files to see what changed.
I also took a snapshot before updating to a new version of Mint, realised it broke a bunch of stuff and rolled back.
Honestly, I wish btrfs was the default in many places since taking a snapshot is so cheap and easy.