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classy-giraffe / easy-arch

Script for boostrapping Arch Linux with BTRFS, snapshots and LUKS encryption (UEFI only).
https://classy-giraffe.github.io/easy-arch
Apache License 2.0
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Proposition: two hard drive setup & systemd boot #28

Open Cyfraka opened 2 years ago

Cyfraka commented 2 years ago

First I want to say that easy-arch is the perfect script for my laptop.

Propositions I will be happy to see and test if you implement one ore both of them:

1) I have a 256GB SSD and 128 GB M.2 SSD and for the moment BTRFS using the both of the drives I used only in Fedora 34/35 2) Systemd boot

classy-giraffe commented 2 years ago

To the first question my answer is "I can think about it". Regarding the second question, that's a no for two reasons: 1) Systemd boot is nowhere near as featureful as GRUB (can we even consider it as a bootloader? cause it just launches EFI files). 2) It doesn't allow booting from snapshots. :D

Cyfraka commented 2 years ago

Thanks for accepting the idea about the 2 disks and agree that without snapshots it's worthless to change GRUB for anything else. Time for Coffee :)

pm4rcin commented 2 years ago

To the first question my answer is "I can think about it". Regarding the second question, that's a no for two reasons:

1. Systemd boot is nowhere near as featureful as GRUB (can we even consider it as a bootloader? cause it just launches EFI files).

2. It doesn't allow booting from snapshots. :D

Ad. 1 Yes systemd-boot is UEFI boot manager not bootloader but who really cares. The pros are simple configuration that is enough for many users. Ad. 2 That's what I thought too but surprise: snapper-systemd-boot.sh ;)

Cyfraka commented 2 years ago

Related to the second SSD it was enough to format it as BTRFS then

sudo btrfs device add /dev/sdb1 /home -f (in my case I increased the /home subvol)

It looks that I achieved my goal like this.

classy-giraffe commented 2 years ago

Related to the second SSD it was enough to format it as BTRFS then #sudo btrfs device add /dev/sdb1 /home -f (in my case I increased the /home subvol) It looks that I achieved my goal like this.

Great, that could help me with adding a multi-device setup to the script.

classy-giraffe commented 2 years ago

@pm4rcin Ok i've actually checked that project and yeah it looks promising, let's say that I'll keep my eyes on it and on similar projects (I myself prefer systemd-boot over GRUB, I actually use it on my own system so yeah, I'm keen to switch to it as soon as that project matures.

iSparsh commented 2 years ago

IMO We should just go ahead with the systemd script in a experimental branch (if possible).

classy-giraffe commented 2 years ago

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I've did some systemd-boot tests "off-camera" and the support for snapshots is still immature. I'm not saying that's not gonna happen, but just not anytime soon (the only project that involves systemd-boot and snapshots is literally a bash script a couple of stars on github, it's not even something official, unlike GRUB support). 😐