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BTRFS Question (lemmy.today)
submitted 5 days 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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[–] 1 point 1 day ago

I've seen the recommendations of software raid0. The answers are all technically correct.

Don't do this. Especially with real hardware. If you lose one drive, you will lose both the drives.

Could you give us more info on how your other encrypted drive is mounted and meant to be used?

  • It is possible to get the second encrypted drive to decrypt and mount automatically, without logging in.
  • It's possible to do it without leaving a key for your second drive on your primary hard drive using a TPM
  • It is possible to get both drives to decrypt automatically and mount

It all depends how the encryption is being done, and where the mount points are.

Could you give us:

  • The rough dimensions of the drive partitions (fdisk -l)
  • Your current mount points after mounting the second drive (df -h)
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