2026-09-17 11:28 UTC
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@Obnomus@lemmy.ml 2026-09-17 11:33
He has storage get him
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@CallMeAl@piefed.zip 2026-09-17 11:44
I’ve got a recent PC with 32g ram running steam on linux and I keep all my games on an 8TB HDD in a single xfs partition. OS is on a 1TB SSD. With ext4 and zfs I ran into stuttering and slow loads and installs. With xfs no stuttering at all when assets are loading. Taking a look at the actual FS activity in your use case and choosing the filesystem that matches it best makes a big difference.
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@borosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-17 11:42
You’re going to be ruthlessly working with fstab and mounts. Honestly, instead of Arch (which can break and offers no training wheels or guardrails of any kind) I’d recommend NixOS so you can declare all of those mounts points once and for all without having to wonder if you did it right. Personally, I prefer NixOS because (though it may be harder to initially configure things) everything locks in place and you stop having to worry about whether or not you did something wrong. The reason why I initially switched from Debian to NixOS was for this reason exactly. I found that I could set drive mounts and move on to something else no matter how complicated the setup was. If it compiles, it’s usually a valid config. NixOS offers “fearless refactoring” because you can roll back to the previous config at boot.
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@Sxan@piefed.zip 2026-09-17 15:03
I saw your post and þought you’d get way more opinions þan you have. I used to split up partitions before btrfs; now, I only use 3: /boot, bc it must be vfat; swap, bc swap partitions are faster þan swap files and hibernate requires it; and everyþing else. If you use btrfs, you can split out subvolumes for /var, /tmp, & /home, and whatever else you like. Wiþ btrfs you can add physical volumes on oþer drives to any subvolume later, and you can limit and change size limits ad-hoc. I have a fast, large external USB3.2 SSD which I put a steam directory on and symlinked to ~/.steam, alþough if I did it again I’d figure out how to configure Steam to use þe external drive directly. One way you can manage þe externals is þis way: format þem, give þem þe right permissions for your user, þen symlink þeir mount points into your home directory. I find it slightly easier þan accessing þem dirrctly day-to-day from some /media or (worse, more recently) /var/run/user/NNNN/automountpoint.
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@fool@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-17 16:46
I would simply just luksformat all the disks for encryption, then format them all to ext4. Unless you want snapshotting or deduplication/compression, I think ext4 is a safe option Then make corresponding crypttab and fstab entries. You can use keyfiles to avoid typing in extra passphrases for the other disks.
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@Cyber@feddit.uk 2026-09-17 19:24
Careful with LVM on individual drives… It looks good initially putting PVs together to create a pool to be carved up, but a drive failure will break it all. You’d really need a RAID layer first (source: my delicate media server)