I’m on a Fedora Kinoite system that is entirely on one LUKS encrypted drive, I recently added a second drive to have more space and I’m wondering how I should make use of it.
For now I formatted it completely with a new btrfs partition encrypted with LUKS and to actually add I thought I could:
- automount it to some location, not sure where I should mount it though, I’ve seen many questions online that say to avoid
/mnt
for permanent drives and also/media
(there are contrasting opinions on that, though), so I thought I could maybe sidestep this question by going with the second option which is the following - extending the already existing btrfs
/sysroot
to span across the 2 partitions on the separate drives, but I didn’t find good information on this process when LUKS is involved. It seems like that kind of operation is heavily discouraged due to risking data loss
So I wonder, what is the best approach and the one that will give me fewer headaches? If it is the second, how do I do it?
Edit: going with the first option I had an issue where the drive wouldn’t be mounted automatically at boot, I then read through my /etc/crypttab
more carefully and saw that the UUID was wrong, I had used the partition UUID (PARTUUID as seen with the blkid
command) instead of the actual device UUID, after correcting that it works and mounts correctly. Just a small oversight, the hardest to notice sometimes.
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That sounds promising, but I feel like it is quite complex for me, maybe I’ll look into it again another time, thanks for the suggestion and explaining to me though!