If its encrypted, you can also decrypt the drive automatically once booted by adding an entry in /etc/crypttab
This will make it so you don’t have to type the password.
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5·22 days agoIts perfect for a small VPS. Been using it for years.
I do occasionally get places where my email simply will not send to them, even though it follows every email standard properly and isnt blacklisted. For those rare occasions, ill use a third party email address to send, which then forwards everything to my main email.
Per the Arch Wiki:
The AUR is unsupported, so any packages you install are your responsibility to update, not pacman’s. If packages in the official repositories are updated, you will need to rebuild any AUR packages that depend on those libraries.
They have a whole wiki for the AUR.
To update the package, you use git to pull the latest branch code and repeat the process. You should double check if there are dependency changes though.
Like I said, its easier with a pacman wrapper, but not necessary.
You definitely do not need to use any pacman wrappers to build a package from the AUR. Those tools make it easy, yes, but are not required.
Building a package can be as simple as
git clone AURpackageherecd AURpackageheremakepkg -si
They acknowledge many wrappers, not just yay. However, none are officially supported.
Pacman is the only standard package manager for Arch. Arch recommends against using third party package managers, including Yay.
What issues were you having with arch-install that you had to troubleshoot?
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Do not allow http or ftp traffic as this guide suggests, unless you are active as a server for your local network on those particular ports, and you are behind a NAT firewall that your router usually provides.
I love that Mint brings people to Linux, but its users write some silly guides sometimes.
SSDs?
Oh, never met anyone that despises their own data. Hell yeah, dude. Lose that data!
Do you physically crush and grind your drives once they are end-of-life?
You can just store the key in your TPM and then you don’t have to memorize anything.
Yes, its fine to have your OS on a separate SSD and use your HDD as data storage.
Its also important to maintain your drives. Be sure to have SMART alerts, and do spinrite or badblocks occasionally to let the drive firmware remove bad sectors from use.
Always install Windows first. Mint should be able to find your Windows install and have it as a bootable selection.
A quick fix you could try is to boot into Mint and reinstall the kernel. Itll run through the mkinitcpio and os-prober process and potentially add your Windows disk to the boot selection.
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And technically the key file can just be a plain text password and still work. Just as long as the key file matches the drive’s encryption password.