One vs 2 drives on a System76 laptop?

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@TheLinuxNinja

leave plenty of free space on your flash storage to give it room to perform wear leveling on writes.

@TheLinuxNinja

Keeping /home on a separate drive allows you to nuke and pave much more easily, if you’re that kind of Linux user.

Those are the kinds of things you read and go… wow… why didn’t that occur to me!?

Thank you.

@TheLinuxNinja

Another advantage of having a separate drive/partition is that you can use LUKs to encrypt it, and still be able to do updates and reboots without needing to enter the encryption key.

For @m3110w, i’d add that if you plan to dual-boot, run a live distro or leave your laptop in non-secure environments everything must be LUKS encrypted (excl. GRUB) with Secure Boot enabled or one OS can infect the other OS and gain access to your encrypted volume the next time you unlock it.

LinuxNinja knows that, it’s just hard to cover everything without writing a book.

For remoting in to a LUKS encrypted drive you could use a Pi-KVM.