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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A good way to keep this easy for yourself is to keep the files you actually care about like pictures, game saves, documents, etc all on a separate partition. It makes it very easy to make a backup for distro hopping.

You can nuke your OS as many times as you like, and everything will be exactly in the same place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you want to be slightly fancier, you can use a btrfs subvolume and not have to worry about sizing partitions correctly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

lvm2 noises intensify

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@cadekat @Olgratin_Magmatoe doesn't ext4 have this feature or am I missing something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I don't believe it does, but I could be wrong!