Originally I had the OS and home on a 256GB SSD. Now the OS is on a 256GB SSD and home is on a 1TB SSD.
I can also completely wipe away the drive with the OS on it. Reinstall the same distro or install a different distro, point fstab to that drive, and bam all my home files are right there.
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on my server? Cockpit
Cockpit is great! I learned about it recently and immediately tried it out on a lab machine, and shortly after deployed it across my systems.
I just learned about it now!
Link to the project for others who are interested
Install Bottles and HeoricGamesLauncher.
Put home on a different drive from the get go.
Explain why?
Originally I had the OS and home on a 256GB SSD. Now the OS is on a 256GB SSD and home is on a 1TB SSD.
I can also completely wipe away the drive with the OS on it. Reinstall the same distro or install a different distro, point fstab to that drive, and bam all my home files are right there.
Is this possible after the fact ?
Looks like someone on github even created a script to automatically install and configure grub-btrfs and snapper on Fedora.
fedora_grub-btrfs_snapper_sh
Setup zram if your OS doesn't already
I'm on Bazzite, first time doing wacky stuff like a year and half or so ago... ended up in an unnecessary reinstall.