cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/9319044

Hey,

I am planning to implement authenticated boot inspired from Pid Eins’ blog. I’ll be using pam mount for /home/user. I need to check integrity of all partitions.

I have been using luks+ext4 till now. I am hesistant hesitant to switch to zfs/btrfs, afraid I might fuck up. A while back I accidently purged ‘/’ trying out timeshift which was my fault.

Should I use zfs/btrfs for /home/user? As for root, I’m considering luks+(zfs/btrfs) to be restorable to blank state.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
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    5 months ago

    DO NOT RUN A SCRUB IF YOU SUSPECT HARDWARE FAILURE.

    No seriously. If you are having hardware issues a scrub could make the corruption much worse. You should first make a complete copy of your data and then run btrfs check. Sorry for shouting but it is really important you don’t stub a bad disk.