You should do some research into using lvm - essentially one partition (pv) and named groups (vg), virtual partitions (lv’s) that you can grow or shrink on demand as long as there’s some free disk space still available

I like to name them by os + drive type, e.g. volume group names for you could be “mintnvme” and “nobusb”

The handbook is fantastic and Gentoo is a great learning experience - my tips are:

• setup binrepos (saves a lot of compile time)
• if using as a desktop, install a browser that has a binary package option like opera or vivaldi (or even Edge). Do not use chrom(ium) or firefox - they each take hours and/or massive ram to compile

Nice, I’ll post mine as a reply since it’s very similar :)

Work: when I started we were Centos/RHEL with some Debian, then pivoted to primarily Debian, now we have pivoted to Ubuntu.

Work Desktop: Besides obligatory Windows I have been on Gentoo +KDE for the last 10 years, but the Chromium portage build times as well as some weird performance degradation finally became too much and I just recently switched to NixOS (with newer hardware).

Home Server: Slackware/Gentoo for a while starting in the mid 2000’s, then stuck with FreeBSD for over a decade. Since then I’ve just happy with Raspian on an rpi, but looking at switching it to NixOS

Home Desktop: Wasn’t much of a category for me and usually just a Windows junkie at home, but recently been very pleased with SteamOS

LVM is in your favorites? It’s essential command(s) for sure but every time I use it it’s trial and error because I didn’t use the correct flag case and/or argument order

My password is Huntarr2

If you replace your uses of the words stolen and steal with “kept” and “keep’”, then your statements make sense.

Also it’s coreutils - they intentionally have a very focused scope and features. An Apple LLM bundled into awk is desired by no one

Chat, is this real?

Slackware taught me appreciation for apt/yum dependency resolution.

It was a great learning experience, but I doubt I’d ever go back

Never actually tried LFS but I have done Gentoo from stage 1 (back when that was an option), so I’m going to use your statement as an indication I can skip LFS 😁

So if you want to use systemd-boot as the bootloader you have to (apparently) install the systemd-utils package. Or you can just use GRUB / efistub.

Edit: looks like groche beat me to it 😁

It’s probably been 4 years since I last had to rebuild my Gentoo, but I would be very surprised if there weren’t good OpenRC instructions. I built mine with systemd and Gentoo handbook instructions always felt like ‘Are you sure you don’t want to use OpenRC? Ok, here are the systemd steps I guess’

An obviously talented programmer is no longer working on a free project that very few people can meaningfully contribute to - that is a shame.

I can’t even get myself to learn rust, let alone make a GPU driver while reverse engineering blackbox hardware.

But how to get the OS to recognize it?

My approach for doing this in Gentoo with an encrypted /home is to configure dracut to make a slightly customized initrd.

Thanks to dracut modules, not too much configuration is needed - it prompts on boot for the password to decrypt, and then fstab is just configured to mount the decrypted uuid.

Someone else mentioned using multiple key slots, but I think this is your only real secure option.

Edit: on second thought, you may be able to get this to work in grub simply by adding rd.luks.uuid=xxx as a kernel boot parameter, and then having the decrypted /dev/mapper uuid in fstab for /home

Not sure where you got the 25kb number from.

This tool is written in go and is a 7.8 MB compiled binary.