Le 24/07/2022 à 05:18, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng a écrit :
Hi list,
I lost the single SSD on my mini PC and am in the process of rethinking
its storage. So far, I've got myself two brand new and identical PCIe
NVMe SSDs (256GB) for use in a software RAID1 setup. I think I need to
enable UEFI to get access to the BIOS from the GRUB menu.
I want my /home directory on a partition of its own, at a minimum, and
encrypt it. I don't see a need to encrypt much else as I am not after
plausible deniability. It's mostly to be able to return a broken disk
for a replacement and still sleep in relative peace of mind;-)
I haven't quite made up my mind as to a need for other partitions. I
use containers and VMs quite a bit. Perhaps these are better stored
some place other than the partitions for / or (an encrypted) /home.
With 64GB of RAM, I don't see much need for swap. If needed, I could
always add a swapfile instead of a partition.
Apart from the containers, which I haven't any experience of, and
given your pretty reasonable description of your needs, my take would be
to reserve the whole of your RAID1 for /home and add a small ssd for all
the OS, in one single partition. Of course, no swap.
If you happen to loose the OS disk, which is very unlikely: not a
big harm, install Devuan on a fresh one. Your home is safe, although the
only protection against your own mistakes is, of course, backup. KISS!
-- Didier
_______________________________________________
Dng mailing list
Dng@lists.dyne.org
https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
