It feels like a relief after reading earlier Lemmy comments in other posts about btrfs vs ext4 and having read this Wikipedia page paragraph :
In 2008, the principal developer of the ext3 and ext4 file systems, Theodore Tsāo, stated that although ext4 has improved features, it is not a major advance, it uses old technology, and is a stop-gap. Tsāo believes that Btrfs is the better direction because āit offers improvements in scalability, reliability, and ease of managementā.[29] Btrfs also has āa number of the same design ideas that reiser3/4 hadā.[30] š¢
Oh no, wait a minute, I overlooked the next sentence last time š :
However, ext4 has continued to gain new features such as file encryption and metadata checksums.
On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I canāt really tell the difference in my regular usage.
Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but Iām not sure if thatās true anymore.
EDIT: I kinda forgot to actually mention my problem. When booting nornall, I get stuck at a lonely white blinking cursor on a black screen, so startx seems to make some problems. I enter a TTY and run startx and this is what I get when running startx:
output of startx
What was the output ? It is not visible for me here.
Were you using startx successfully before ?
Or are you reverting to trying startx and you did use some graphical display manager like gdm, sddm or lightdm before ?
Could it be a disk space problem ? If you run out of space trouble can happen with various applications.
Can you boot from a previous kernel (At the GRUB or systemd boot menu) and see what happens ?
@mactan@Nimrod It's very true that windows often disrupts multiboot setups. Just ask anyone who has a multiboot setup in place. They'll probably agree....
afaik you canāt mount folders, only drives. So what youāre looking for are symlinks (symbolic links, as opposed to hard links; use e.g. ln -s <source> ~/Downloads). I have a few in my $HOME pointing to other drives as well.
if your NTFS drive is unmounted or unavailable, the link will be broken; but you wonāt have to recreate it in the future: so itās a āset and forgetā operation for as long as the path the link points to remains the same.
I donāt think this is a bad question at all, personally I would prefer to mount the drive once and symlink folders for a couple reasons:
Itās easier to automate
itās theoretically faster (to initialize) as symlinks are effectively free
I personally like symlink syntax more than mount syntax :P
One possible con to symlinks is that certain (linux native) software can misbehave when it has to interact with them, but this is a fairly uncommon issue. Stuff ran through wine or proton should support them just fine, as they are abstracted away.
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For the tablet? Iām considering a Surface keyboard or cheaper alternative, but I would usually be using it for handwritten notes and other tasks for which I would not use the keyboard. It would really be most useful during initial setup. I would still need to easily open it when the keyboard is removed.
For data like this from another filesystem I usually like to mount the entire volume somewhere private like /run and then bind mount the parts I want to use into their desired locations (like /home/foo/Download, etc.)
I do this with a second ext4 drive that I use for performance sensitive storage with my primary btrfs system root. It works well, just be aware of edge cases involving containers (you may have to grant the container access to the original mount location under /run as well as the bound path.)
Seconding this. As itās a mount that is explicitly for your user, you might as well mount it where itās most convenient for you.
If, on the other hand, it was a mountpoint for the entire system, Iād keep it in /mnt and go the symlink route - Iām old fashioned, and I like to use /mnt for as much as possible. I find it more tidy that way. On that note, Iām not 100% sold on /media yet
Not related to your question exactly, but if you want certain āspecialā folders (Downloads, Music etc.) to be in specific places, it might be worth setting up xdg data dirs to the appropriate location.
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