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Recently got a laptop from a friend after mine got smashed to smithereens. I was going to do a fresh install of my favourite binary distro, Void Linux on it but I recently found out they dropped Monero (and Crypto programs) for ideological reasons.

I guess its time to come home!

Booted Laptop/PC to the LiveUSB, time to do my gruelling ZFS installs :)

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[-] ticoombs@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

gruelling ZFS

ZFS is a dream!

[-] Ew0@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

It is, although my install is a bit funky. Efistub/zfsbootmenu wth native encryption - there's a few extra steps :-) luckily I have it all written down!

[-] brubarwal 2 points 1 year ago

Any chance you’re willing to share those notes? I have the same setup (without encryption) but I didn’t write anything down!

[-] Ew0@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

I am more than happy to but I'm not sure if it's an older version of what I had written up, I'm actually reinstalling on another laptop to test/re-write it and I'd be more than happy to share if it works :P

[-] brubarwal 2 points 1 year ago

Sound good. It’s been a while since I installed and anything would be helpful

[-] Ew0@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the good news is that it worked :) Gimme a mo I'll pastebin them.

[-] Ew0@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Here you go!

For HDD/SSDs: https://bpa.st/J2HQ

For NVMEs: https://bpa.st/B4WQ

The paths are slightly different so I made two. Could probably merge it into one pretty easily but I can't be bothered messing around with variables :)

[-] brubarwal 1 points 1 year ago

Very helpful, thanks!

[-] Ew0@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago

Glad to be of service!

[-] SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I've had Void on my desktop for a few years as I didn't think it could handle Gentoo, 2011 iMac with 4GB ram, I tried Gentoo again a few months back and have been delighted. Between the binary kernel, -bin packages in the main tree, experimental Gentoo binhost and Calculate Linux repos updating or installing new stuff with portage is pretty smooth.

I've been on lvm/luks/ext4 for a long time. zfs looked cool but I prefer to rely on mainline support, btrfs sounded promising and exciting but I don't think they have done the encryption bit yet which, was the bit I was excited about from the start. I'm kinda hoping by the end of the year I can ditch ext4/lvm/luks on my desktop and just have bcachefs doing it all with mainline support.

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