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1 • To span multiple devices I use: ext4 (by vern on 2021-06-14 00:17:31 GMT from United States)
I once tried the others, but in my case it doesn't warrant the effort.
2 • To span multiple devices I use: BTRFS (by Carlos Felipe Araujo on 2021-06-14 01:07:15 GMT from Brazil)
only because I use Fedora, but I don't know the real difference.
3 • To span multiple devices I use: ext4 (by Richard on 2021-06-14 01:37:10 GMT from United States)
I use ext4 combined with mount points in fstab. I have a combination of sata and usb drives and have them mounted in fstab with ext4 filesystem on all.
4 • Redcore Linux 2101's password requirements (by eco2geek on 2021-06-14 01:40:10 GMT from United States)
I'm running Redcore Linux 2101 Live and set passwords for both the regular and the root user. (Out of the box, there are no passwords set.) Curiously, the "passwd" command refused to let me set passwords that didn't have upper case and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols in them.
It was actually more complicated than that. If I wanted to set a password that was only 7 characters long, I'd have to use all 4 types of characters. If I wanted to set a password 8 characters long or longer, it would let me use only 3 out of the 4 types of characters. It also recommended passwords for me to use if no one was looking over my shoulder.
That's the first time the "passwd" command has refused to let me set a password of my own choosing, so I thought it was notable. I wonder if all Linux distros plan on making the "passwd" command act like this.
5 • multiple concurrent desktop sessions under moksha/enlightenment? (by Laubster on 2021-06-14 02:44:52 GMT from United States)
Two or three years ago I tried Bodhi, and liked what I saw, until I found that it didn't support switching to another user without terminating the current desktop session. (For our family dekstop, quickly switching between users is critical.) I recall being told it was simply not supported. Has that changed?
6 • Switching users (by Jesse on 2021-06-14 02:57:33 GMT from Canada)
@5: There is no option in the Moksha application menu to switch users. There are ways around that, but it's a bit technical and not particularly user friendly.
7 • To span, or not (by DB on 2021-06-14 04:16:42 GMT from United States)
I use ext4 on all my Linux OS's and most of my storage drives too. I have a couple drives for a Win 7 OS and can't see any advantage to merging them together. At least not for me. Don't even merge my drives on my NAS. I like the the idea of seperate drives being seperate. Seem easier find which physical drive is bad and replace it. I do have backups. Has worked well for me.
8 • Storage pools (by Romane on 2021-06-14 06:58:12 GMT from Australia)
Tried LVM once or twice. As stated above, complicated. Too much for me, abandoned due to its difficulty.
Don't use ZFS - it may be simple to some, but it too appears from what I have read too complicated for a simple person like myself. XFS serves all my needs, as per next paragraph.
Don't use any such system of amalgamating drive space over multiple drives. Found that with judicious partitioning, this serves my needs far better overall. If I wish for a multi-terabyte drive, I will buy one rather than play with any amalgamation processes with the smaller drives.
9 • bodhi (by arda on 2021-06-14 09:40:14 GMT from Turkey)
bodhi is often advertised as oldpc friendly but whenever I try it, it's slow on even newer computers
10 • Multiple drives and partitions (by John on 2021-06-14 10:53:41 GMT from United States)
Hi All,
I would be nice to have an easy way to combine multiple drives and partitions into one large virtual filesystem so I can easily search for some hard to find 'where is it' file!
John
11 • Multiple Drives (by Pat H on 2021-06-14 11:11:17 GMT from United States)
I found that the best way to manage my 3 hard disks was to install a seperate OS on each of them and let grub ask which one to boot. I still have a BIOS on the old box. My computer education has been a meandering, trial and error experience, not very formal. Thank you DW for the help.
12 • Multiple drives (by fox on 2021-06-14 11:23:17 GMT from Canada)
I had the opposite situation on my 2014 iMac. It came with what Apple calls a Fusion Drive, which is the software merging of a small (128 gb) blade SSD with a much larger capacity (but slow) HD. I separated the two so I could put Linux Mint on the SSD and MacOS X on the HD.
13 • Multi-device OS system, not filesystem (by TheTKS on 2021-06-14 11:34:43 GMT from Canada)
I have no reason to run a multi-device filesystem yet.
On a side note, I multiboot Linuxes and Windows 10 on 2 drives. One drive has only one Linux and all its files, the other drive has everything else - no sharing of files across the two drives.
Similarly to Pat H above, I use Grub to boot into the OS I want (or into the UEFI menu.)
ext4 for all Linuxes, NTFS for Windows 10.
I may be trying this soon, though. I will be adding an SSD to my OpenBSD box. I haven’t read up on it yet, but if FFS2 allows it, I will set it up to have OpenBSD use both my new SSD and my old HDD.
TKS
14 • Filesystem spanning multiple drives (by Quazatron on 2021-06-14 11:41:19 GMT from Portugal)
It doesn't matter which route you follow to span a filesystem over multiple drives, when one of your disks fail, you *will* lose all your data.
Make regular backups, people.
15 • Bodhi Linux Review (by Otis on 2021-06-14 12:12:08 GMT from United States)
Very nice review (as usual wrt Jesse's reviews).
A phrase in the review might as well have had the old blink tags: "Moksha feels like coming home or like you're trying to learn an alien language from a Martian with a lisp." It was NOT like coming home for this user. My gosh I felt like I was using something on my computer that was making efforts at nearly every turn to annoy me.
What I did like was the efforts by the distro to keep things coming as to app/packages when I did a search in cli. But that was about it.. all the annoying things are pointed out in the review, and there are many of them. But of course that DE has its fans or it would not be there.
16 • ext4 (by papapico on 2021-06-14 12:49:51 GMT from Australia)
I am not smart enough to run more than that. I have 4 drives in my desktop + 2 external hdd. everything is ext4. I keep backups but also don't have anything I would consider critical on my desktop I would be upset about losing (that is usually on laptop). Should I be using something else?
17 • NetBSD/FreeBSD comparison (by Otis on 2021-06-14 13:32:18 GMT from United States)
Thank you for that valuable article comparing those two BSD projects.
I've run GhostBSD (developed off of FreeBSD) off and on for about a year and now for the first time understand a frustration I've had with it regarding my Nvidia/Intel CPU. Heat has been the issue, and the absence of nouveau has been the cause; now I see why as the writer explains that in NetBSD the module approach is much less so than the drivers baked into the kernel:
"On FreeBSD, you have to explicitly install and load graphics drivers, while on NetBSD they’re baked in to the default kernel and will automatically be loaded. FreeBSD has a proprietary driver for Nvidia GPUs, which takes some extra care to configure, while on NetBSD the open source driver nouveau is used instead."
Several other questions answered there as well, and I'll be giving NetBSD a try very soon.
18 • ZFS (by Rando on 2021-06-14 14:01:16 GMT from United States)
Didn't know much about advanced filesystems until switching my file servers over to TrueNAS and now I couldn't live without it. ZFS and RAID-Z do everything that was once confusing and laborious to do with hardware RAID. Snapshots mean I can flip back to previous versions of a file on the fly and the automatic self-healing features mean file integrity is basically guaranteed. Working with ZFS datasets is way easier than just thinking in terms of block devices. Got new drives you want to add to a pool? Just add them to a pool and ZFS literally does everything else by itself from formatting to mounting. There's some learning curve due to the fact that ZFS works so differently than other file systems but once you get past that, it's great.
19 • JBOD (by Tad Strange on 2021-06-14 14:30:39 GMT from Canada)
I cringe when I hear of someone wanting to trust their data to some JBOD deal. Storage is cheap - buy a couple big drives and mirror the suckers.
I either use RAID of some form, and/or have backup drives. If I really wanted a virtual contiguous sort of drive structure I'd use mount points, but I'm set enough in my ways that I like each storage device to identify itself to me, a RAID array notwithstanding.
20 • @7 @14 (by Linux Revolution on 2021-06-14 15:10:41 GMT from United States)
I agree with both these sentiments. I have never found a use case for LVM in any of my computing environments, be it business or personal. Its expensive in the fact that you're using multiple disk for one set of data. If one goes down, well there goes your data anyway. Not only that, you're increasing the odds losing your data due to disk failure by just shear numbers. If you're needing to span multiple disk, why not just use raid. Even though raid is a different concept, at least you'll have a built-in backup or data redundancy AND you're getting bang for the buck with adding drives.
21 • Multidisks and filesystems (by Robert on 2021-06-14 15:56:16 GMT from United States)
I don't find LVM particularly harder to work with than ZFS. The complexity comes when you also have to work with md. Including you fs of choice and now you've got 3 separate tools to work with for what seems like a single task - managing storage.
I do not and never have used a JBOS setup. I've used md+lvm raid before and use a zfs mirror now. Once I get around to finishing my files every there will be more zfs, but I'm undecided on how I will configure the disks. I know groups of mirrors is often recommended, but that seems so wasteful no matter how 'cheap storage is.
22 • Bodhi 6.0 (by Peter086 on 2021-06-14 16:55:18 GMT from Spain)
I wish someone would take the Enlightemnment framework and design a "new" MATE-like desktop. Weren't all the libs and guts well documented? Didn't Samsung seriously look into using the ELF?
23 • BIND mount (by Alien on 2021-06-14 20:14:40 GMT from Canada)
I have a laptop with a 16GB SSD and a 500GB HDD. The SSD was originally supposed to be a cache drive for Windows. I chose to install Debian on the SSD and I bind mount /var, /tmp and /home to the HDD. The files on the SSD remain relatively static, thus reducing wear on the small SSD. All of the binaries reside on the SSD, thus the system and apps open very quickly. The files on the HDD include files that are more dynamic in nature and include log files, cache and documents.
24 • Multiple devices spanning. (by Tuxedoar on 2021-06-14 20:38:30 GMT from Argentina)
Hi. Even though I voted for LVM, I really use a combination of software RAID (mdadm) + LVM. In this way, I get the best of both worlds: LVM flexibility for managing different volumes (on-line resizing, flexible naming schemes, etc) and data redundancy with RAID I, in my case. As someone already pointed out (see @14), using LVM across multiple disks without ANY kind of RAID, is a risky game!. Nonetheless, one should ALWAYS have working uptodate backups!!.
Cheers!
25 • To span multiple devices I use: ZFS (by vasile on 2021-06-14 21:16:02 GMT from Moldova)
I use ZFS on netbsd with 2 hard disks...
26 • mlocate (by Bob on 2021-06-14 23:13:21 GMT from United States)
mlocate finds files on any medium that is mounted. I currently have and SSD and a hard drive, and it works just fine that way.
27 • Multiple drives in a single pool... (by Tech in San Diego on 2021-06-15 00:21:45 GMT from United States)
Question, Wouldn't adding an SSD to an existing HDD volume and making one large volume decrease the overall performance of the system? I use BTRFS (openSUSE Tumbleweed), and have the O/S on the SSD and the remaining data on an external Seagate Barracuda @ 7200RPM. Am I missing something here?
All the Best!
Tech in San Diego
28 • Multiple devices spanning - mergerfs (by Juraj on 2021-06-15 10:24:10 GMT from United States)
Not the "typical" solution, but at least worth to mention. Someone using it?
https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs
29 • Spanning multiple devices (by Joseph on 2021-06-15 16:36:37 GMT from United States)
I'm surprised by those who dismiss spanning multiple disks. I'm old enough to remember 20MB (yes, megabyte) hard disks, DOS operating system, having to format each one separately and be assigned a different drive letter.
Let's say you have some pictures on drive C and drive C is now filled up. You'd have to do something like create a "PICTURE2" directory on drive D and put the rest there, and now you're constantly searching both drives trying to find a particular picture.
I told my boss at the place I was working as a teen, "I wish there was some way that when you added a second drive it could see it as one big drive and then you wouldn't have to split directories". He thought that was an interesting idea.
Flash forward at least 20 years and I'm installing Linux on my desktop and discover the wonders of LVM for the first time. I had a "Eureka!" moment, realizing that this was what I'd been dreaming of for decades!
When you get a new hard drive, no need to copy all the old stuff to the new one then figure out how you're going to partition/mount the old one if it's still good... just join those suckers together! No need to spend 30 minutes moving unmounted partitions around because you want to expand one with remaining free space or resize them... simple, online, instant resizing (well, expanding is instant anyway)!
At the present moment I've got two 3TB drives joined as a single volume along with a 1TB NVMe SSD which is used 50GB as boot partition, the rest as LVM Cache so I can access those hard drives about as fast as an SSD! I also have one 8TB 5400RPM drive in a hot swap dock for backup using BorgBackup. My actual partitions are formatted with BTRFS and the home partition creates hourly snapshots while the root partition snapshots on update and, thanks to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, I can boot into older snapshots if needed.
It's really a great setup, best I've had in about 11 years of using Linux every day, and not too hard to set up either (due in part to OpenSUSE's amazing installer).
30 • Bodhi's Idiosyncracies (by vtpoet on 2021-06-15 18:30:32 GMT from United States)
That Moksha "works differently from virtually every other desktop interface" is what turned me off from using the desktop. I just saw no reason for it; and the desktop itself didn't provide enough of a commensurate advantage to make all of its random and pointless idiosyncrasies worth adjusting to.
31 • bodhi and spanners (by fonz on 2021-06-16 08:58:01 GMT from Indonesia)
yep, bodhi was awesome when i last tried it ages ago. its what sparked my interest with puppy and a bunch of other smaller distros. but currently MX is working well for me and i might switch to it on the long term...
spanning is a bit dangerous IMHO, def not for me. keeping things separate is easier if we do follow our own rules. and as 7 14 20 said, i guess the fall would hurt a ton if we werent prepared. i did try it a long time ago with aging HDs, despite only testing it out, 'a chain is only as strong as its weakest link' type of thing has too many risks. RAID was also pretty harsh to setup but still more forgiving being able to somewhat recover from my herps and derps. all in all having a bunch of external (includes internal with power adapter) is less of a hassle...
32 • Bodhi Linux (by Rick on 2021-06-16 13:35:53 GMT from United States)
Definitely one of the worst distros (along with Pop! OS and Ultimate Edition) that I have ever tested in the past 15 years. It's ugly looking and the desktop is unlike any I have ever seen. Just to think that prior to 2011 there were only 2 main desktops: Gnome 2 and KDE. There are many better distros to choose from!
33 • File Systems (by Vladamir Biden on 2021-06-16 21:16:24 GMT from Switzerland)
I wonder what the one who knows it all uses (but ironically feigns ignorant with "who knows?")? I just use what the OS installs by default, and that just happens to be ext4. But, I STILL use NTFS on some storage HDDs, that's in case my PC gets Covie-Omega-Jillion.875545 and dies, then, because most peepz around me are still addicted to that certain monopoly OS, I could borrow a SATA port or two, if I had to, without too much trouble. Bill (G.) Vader banned file system compatibility many eons ago. My USB sticks still use fatty fat fat32, just less headaches.
34 • Bodhi (by Sebastian on 2021-06-17 01:58:02 GMT from Canada)
I loved Bodhi Linux. It's really snappy and my laptop's battery lasted much longer since it was very light on resources. However, after a few months, I couldn't really stand how bizarre Moksha was and switched back to Mint, my go-to distro. I would definitely tell people to go ahead and try Bodhi, it's worth it. But Moksha will take some time to get used to (if you manage). In a way, it's great because one thing that I love about open-source is how diversified your experience can be unlike Mac, Windows and even Android.
35 • span multiple devices (by Trihexagonal on 2021-06-17 10:18:29 GMT from United States)
I use the UFS file system and USB sticks to distribute data from one machine to another.
I save all relevant data from the last build to a USB stick, then populate the new builds with data saved to the USB stick. Saving and distributing files as necessary during the run.
I have 7 laptops running FreeBSD and they all serve as backup drives for the others that way.
36 • Bodhi (by Mike on 2021-06-17 12:12:45 GMT from United States)
It's amazing to me that people can condemn a distro, like Bodhi, simply because they don't like the way it looks on their screens. Deeply superficial judgments IMO.
37 • Bodhi reviews (by Otis on 2021-06-17 13:18:50 GMT from United States)
@36 it seems deeply superficial for a person to read through the comments and reviews of the latest Bodhi linux and come away from them noticing only remarks on how it looks on their screens.
That distro left me feeling like its developer(s) created mazes where straight paths are on most distros, to simplify. The screen appearance was fine, and configurable, as are just about all linux distros.
38 • Bodhi (by Tad Strange on 2021-06-17 13:35:13 GMT from Canada)
@36
Well, considering it's Ubuntu under the hood, it's a superficial step away from its parent, so how else should it be judged?
I detest Gnome and would rather use most any other MeTooBuntu myself. Am I judging Ubuntu superficially?
Computers are for getting work done, not for working on the computer itself - that's a hobby. Systems that make getting work done with as little pain as possible are superior, else evolution would have ended at the single user terminal. Choices abound, because creative people have judged for themselves what best suits them, and have produced these environments to reflect that.
So why are you judging users for having preferences?
Deeply superficial times, these...
39 • Bodhi (by Sam on 2021-06-17 16:02:26 GMT from United States)
I completely agree with the review, especially the conclusions about the desktop Moksha desktop UI. The few times I've tried Bodhi, it was the UI that turned me off quickly. And not just because it did things differently -- I don't mind learning different aways of doing things if those different ways end up being more efficient. But Moksha's "different ways" didn't seem any more efficient than Gnome's or KDE's ways of doing things. Also, and this is nit-picking, but the icons and other graphical elements of the UI in Moksha just seemed, well, amateurish and in love with Apple's old skeumorophic design language - as if the whole UI was put together without the help of a talented graphic designer.
40 • Question for #32 (by Brian on 2021-06-17 23:55:53 GMT from United States)
“Definitely one of the worst distros (along with Pop! OS and Ultimate Edition)”
You mention Pop! OS’ appearance, but why else do you dislike it so strongly? I’m just curious—no judgment intended.
41 • Pop! OS (by Andrew on 2021-06-18 16:50:44 GMT from United States)
@32, @40
Plasma fanboi here. I haven't had much experience with Enlightenment/Moksha but am generally turned off by the enormous, almost cartoon-ish icons, etc. This version of Bodhi looks a bit more refined though.
I don't get Pop! OS at all. Essentially Gnome with window tiling, right? I love System 76's hardware, but immediately blew up their OS for vanilla Kubuntu.
42 • To span multiple devices (by Jyrki on 2021-06-18 19:42:38 GMT from Czechia)
typically I don't use this too much, but I have one machine like that and I use Hammer2 there, now that it has this ability finally. And it works just fine.
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| • Issue 1080 (2024-07-22): Running GNU/Linux on Android with Andronix, protecting network services, Solus dropping AppArmor and Snap, openSUSE Aeon Desktop gaining full disk encryption, SUSE asks openSUSE to change its branding |
| • Issue 1079 (2024-07-15): Ubuntu Core 24, hiding files on Linux, Fedora dropping X11 packages on Workstation, Red Hat phasing out GRUB, new OpenSSH vulnerability, FreeBSD speeds up release cycle, UBports testing new first-run wizard |
| • Issue 1078 (2024-07-08): Changing init software, server machines running desktop environments, OpenSSH vulnerability patched, Peppermint launches new edition, HardenedBSD updates ports |
| • Issue 1077 (2024-07-01): The Unity and Lomiri interfaces, different distros for different tasks, Ubuntu plans to run Wayland on NVIDIA cards, openSUSE updates Leap Micro, Debian releases refreshed media, UBports gaining contact synchronisation, FreeDOS celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| • Issue 1076 (2024-06-24): openSUSE 15.6, what makes Linux unique, SUSE Liberty Linux to support CentOS Linux 7, SLE receives 19 years of support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition |
| • Issue 1075 (2024-06-17): Redox OS, X11 and Wayland on the BSDs, AlmaLinux releases Pi build, Canonical announces RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu, key changes in systemd |
| • Issue 1074 (2024-06-10): Endless OS 6.0.0, distros with init diversity, Mint to filter unverified Flatpaks, Debian adds systemd-boot options, Redox adopts COSMIC desktop, OpenSSH gains new security features |
| • Issue 1073 (2024-06-03): LXQt 2.0.0, an overview of Linux desktop environments, Canonical partners with Milk-V, openSUSE introduces new features in Aeon Desktop, Fedora mirrors see rise in traffic, Wayland adds OpenBSD support |
| • Issue 1072 (2024-05-27): Manjaro 24.0, comparing init software, OpenBSD ports Plasma 6, Arch community debates mirror requirements, ThinOS to upgrade its FreeBSD core |
| • Issue 1071 (2024-05-20): Archcraft 2024.04.06, common command line mistakes, ReactOS imports WINE improvements, Haiku makes adjusting themes easier, NetBSD takes a stand against code generated by chatbots |
| • Issue 1070 (2024-05-13): Damn Small Linux 2024, hiding kernel messages during boot, Red Hat offers AI edition, new web browser for UBports, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 released, Qubes extends support for version 4.1 |
| • Issue 1069 (2024-05-06): Ubuntu 24.04, installing packages in alternative locations, systemd creates sudo alternative, Mint encourages XApps collaboration, FreeBSD publishes quarterly update |
| • Issue 1068 (2024-04-29): Fedora 40, transforming one distro into another, Debian elects new Project Leader, Red Hat extends support cycle, Emmabuntus adds accessibility features, Canonical's new security features |
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