I have setup servers where I mounted extra drives on /srv/nfs
When/If I switch to Linux I will probably mount my secondary drives to folders like
/home/stoy/videos
/home/stoy/music
/home/stoy/photos
/home/stoy/documents
/home/stoy/games
The ~/games will probably be an LVM since it contains little critical data and may absolutely need to be expanded to span several drives, though I would also be able to reduce the size of it and remove a drive from the LVM if needed.
I’d make a simple conky config to keep track of the drive space used
I’d just keep using the default automount spot for automounting drives.
My /home is also on a separate filesystem, so in principle I don’t like to mounting data under there, because then I cannot unmount /home (e.g. for fsck purposes) unless I unmount also all the other filesystems there. I keep all my filesystems on LVM.
Yes, just mount to /mnt/videos and symlink that as needed.
I guess there are some benefits in mounting directly to $HOME, though, such as find/fd work “as expected”, and also permissions will be limited automatically per the $HOME permissions (but those can be adjusted manually).
For finding files I use plocate, though, so I wouldn’t get that marginal benefit from mounting below $HOME.
Yep, LVM is basically a software raid 0, I used it when setting up Linux server VMs for years at my last job, as far as I know they are still running fine.
The VM system backed up all VMs regularly, so I used LVMs as it made increasing the storage on a server easier for me.
Since it is just a raid 0 that can span several disks and one disk failiure can bring it down I don’t want any irriplacable data on it, so games from Steam seems like an excellwnt idea.
That also means that being able to just have a volume spanning several disks would be an easy and simple way to increase storage when space is running tight.
I am an avid hobby photographer and I would never trust an LVM without some kind of added protection, I am looking to get a Synology NAS with minimum of four drives raided in raid 5.
I have a very old Intel NAS with used drives that I used for many years, but I don’t trust it anymore, I keep it powered off as a cold backup.
I believe the Synology tailscale client doesn’t support tailscale SSH, but I was able to “classic SSH” into the NAS (remotely, via Tailscale) with no problem.
No, Nix and Guix uses too much space for symlink. That 32GB space can’t handle it. I had a 128GB storage, and it was running out of space after a week. 512GB and 1TB? Just fine.
I don’t think the ability to destroy your entire system by one command is a good thing for a desktop operating system. On Linux random program with root rights can bring down your entire system by one poorly written script, but Windows at least has multiple mechanisms in place to prevent that.
if it’s in the correct place, correct read permissions/ownership, etc i’ve noticed that this is also the error that’s thrown when selinux denies the read: in my case i’d created the service file in my home directory, moved it, and because of that it was tagged incorrectly
i’m on my phone and don’t have time to lookup the resolution or how to check, but perhaps someone else can add that detail
It’s an unofficial open-source daemon used by alternative Spotify clients. I used it once for a terminal Spotify client. It’s a pretty neat piece of software.
Your Storage is pretty low. Adding an SD card with up to 256GB is very possible. There are even 1TB SD cards!
But best to check if you can replace the emmc module inside.
Open it up and send us a pic of the internals. Also search online.
Increasing the emmc storage will give you the best speed. Using a USB stick/ flashdrive is not recommended as those are not meant for running an OS off of them.
RAM
pretty low but not extremely. 4GB is pretty fine.
You can work around it by using a Distro using ZRAM, like Fedora.
Ask here or on discussion.fedoraproject.org how to make ZRAM fill all your RAM.
ZRAM compresses your RAM contents with zstd (imagine it like .zip but worlds better), so you have 12GB or more space. But it consumes more CPU power, which should be a fine tradeoff.
Desktop
While preeetty outdated in default design on Fedora, it is the most lightweight Desktop that will soon (version 6.1) have Wayland support.
Lubuntu has a better theming and maybe better support, see if ZRAM works on Ubuntu base.
Distro
I would recommend Fedora Atomic Desktops a lot.
But as LXQt is likely the best desktop, and it doesnt have the best support on Fedora, I would recomment Lubuntu.
Even though I would give KDE a try, you can strip it down really well. Here, Fedora Kinoite is absolute king.
Thanks! I have figured all that out. I went with Tumbleweed for now, because I had it lying around on a USB stick and wanted to see if it worked. Looks like it works pretty much out of box. I found a ZRAM guide too. Might distro jump over to Fedora though
Tumbleweed is better than traditional Fedora. But it is worse than Fedora Atomic Desktops.
The key words are
<span style="color:#323232;">rpm-ostree reset
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rpm-osree rebase
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rpm-ostree status
</span>
this is not possible even on OpenSUSEs “immutable” distros, which to my knowledge are not better than Tumbleweed in any way.
I had a good experience with GalliumOS on an x86 Chromebook years ago: galliumos.org
I eventually switched it to run Arch but I will admit that it had WAY better support/stability with the touchscreen/touchpad on Gallium than with Arch.
Edit: I just looked at the news page and realized it does not look to be actively maintained now.
Thanks for all the great replies! I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with XFCE for now, because I had it lying around on a USB stick. Mostly to see if I even could get it running. So far so good, but I will definitely use some time to check out my options and see what will work the best. All replies are greatly appreciated!
I used to work for Chromebook Retail and I have a bunch of EOL devices around. Tumbleweed has been the most stable in my experience followed by Endeavor OS.
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