Partitioning your drive is something that basically everyone on Linux does but what purpose does it actually serve and is there any reason why it might be better to avoid creating partitions in your d...
Not everyone can afford to host such a service. For some people, bills would be an issue. For others, buying and storing the hardware would be an issue. For me, storing the hardware and hosting anything would be problematic, as I’m in student accommodation meaning space is limited as it is, let alone with extra stuff laying around. There’s also a point in my contract which states that upon using too much electricity, I would be asked to pay for it over it being included in the contract. On top of that, I don’t even need this as it is overkill for my use case, where I already have a backup of all cool and important stuff and a secondary backup of all the cool and important stuff that can’t be found on the internet or is very difficult to find. So yeah. That’s what I meant. Not everyone can afgord the luxury of doing so.
Oh yeah, but did you know your server is a computer/device and therefore should be considered disposable, too? Checkmate, atheists! \s
Honestly, though, you’re not wrong about how always having multiple copies of your data on separate devices is essential. (You do however also need backups, not just synchronized copies, because data-destroying fuck-ups can get sync’d too.)
I’m not sure what your comment has to do with partitioning, though.
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?
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.
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Not everyone is rich. I sure wish I was, but we can’t all do that.
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Not everyone can afford to host such a service. For some people, bills would be an issue. For others, buying and storing the hardware would be an issue. For me, storing the hardware and hosting anything would be problematic, as I’m in student accommodation meaning space is limited as it is, let alone with extra stuff laying around. There’s also a point in my contract which states that upon using too much electricity, I would be asked to pay for it over it being included in the contract. On top of that, I don’t even need this as it is overkill for my use case, where I already have a backup of all cool and important stuff and a secondary backup of all the cool and important stuff that can’t be found on the internet or is very difficult to find. So yeah. That’s what I meant. Not everyone can afgord the luxury of doing so.
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Oh yeah, but did you know your server is a computer/device and therefore should be considered disposable, too? Checkmate, atheists! \s
Honestly, though, you’re not wrong about how always having multiple copies of your data on separate devices is essential. (You do however also need backups, not just synchronized copies, because data-destroying fuck-ups can get sync’d too.)
I’m not sure what your comment has to do with partitioning, though.
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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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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.
Oh, good idea, should I use partitions on my ‘server’ though?
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