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.
References:
Since you’re already on btrfs it’s probably better to actually use the features it has to expand your existing filesystem to cover both drives.
But if you just want to mount it somewhere and not worry about figuring out anything complicated, what I did is mount my big new cheap disk at /home/bigdisk and then have symlinks pointing to it such as
~/Videos -> /home/bigdisk/Videos
.