• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    When the only tool you have is a hammer…

    Will syncthing help me dual boot then? Our setup EFI? Or boot into a system that uses LVM for a root mount point even if the boot loader doesn’t support LVM?

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      8 months ago

      People usually go about and suggest partitioning their disks because they might require to reinstall the system and that way your home directory “will be safe” from whatever mess forced them into a reinstall. In reality this will just introduce unnecessary complexity and it is as likely to fail as single partition system. I would rather consider a BRTFS sub-volume for home with regular snapshots is way more interesting and manageable than just dumb partitions.

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        8 months ago

        I think when people talk about partitions these days they typically mean things like LVM or sub-volumes. I would also recommend only having 1 or 2 physical disk partitions and then doing all your partitioning in software.

        But the examples I provided above all require on-disk partitions to work. UEFI doesn’t know what a btrfs sub-volume is.