I always use qemu-img from qemu-utils.
I have outlined linking in extra storage to a boot disk many times and am still positive it is the most robust way to arrange a system. A small boot disk that can be imaged into a tidy image file since imaging empty space takes the same time as imaging actual data.
In short I would never recommend combining any system that can accommodate multiple devices into a single device. The OS and DATA should be separate. Some regard /home as the data, I don't and include it in the boot disc. I consider data to be the linked devices into the user directories - so your photos would be a disk mounted at ~/Pictures/photos for example.
Essentially it is similar to mounting /home from a device onto the boot disk as you have already done. However I go further to segregate only the actual data as to not include all the cruft of /home into the data set. The OS, including homes, can be considered a generic thing and easily backed up or replicated. Your data is special and should be separate. So your first setup was closer to this ideal.
I have outlined linking in extra storage to a boot disk many times and am still positive it is the most robust way to arrange a system. A small boot disk that can be imaged into a tidy image file since imaging empty space takes the same time as imaging actual data.
In short I would never recommend combining any system that can accommodate multiple devices into a single device. The OS and DATA should be separate. Some regard /home as the data, I don't and include it in the boot disc. I consider data to be the linked devices into the user directories - so your photos would be a disk mounted at ~/Pictures/photos for example.
Essentially it is similar to mounting /home from a device onto the boot disk as you have already done. However I go further to segregate only the actual data as to not include all the cruft of /home into the data set. The OS, including homes, can be considered a generic thing and easily backed up or replicated. Your data is special and should be separate. So your first setup was closer to this ideal.
Statistics: Posted by CwF — 2024-12-21 17:07 — Replies 5 — Views 86
