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BTRFS Question (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 hours ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Mint for a number of years and I encrypted the drive. An annoyance is I have two drives and the second one needs a different encryption and needs to be mounted seperately when I log in (besides if I tell it to automount with a saved password) I've been looking to change distros and finally chose one, this time though it uses BTRFS. I read over a number of differences but am not technical enough to know what it all means.

My question for now is with BTRFS, when installing the distro, can I tell it to use my second drive as an extension of the main drive so it all gets recognized as one, seamless?

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[–] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

Software raid 0 with btrfs will make the two drives one but I have no idea how that works if you are still going to have separate encryption keys and params for the second physical drive. If they have the same encryption it should be possible to have the device mapper write to the software raid.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago*

    If they have the same password you can just unlog them at boot with one password. They SystemD hook for unlocking LUKS drives automatically tries the first provided password on all encrypted drives it's supposed to unlock. Only if that fails it will ask for additional passwords.

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