• zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    tbh I'm pretty sure the issue I ran into was user error anyways, but once I finally figured out what I was doing, I decided to land on xfs for root and btrfs for home for the following reasons.

    1. xfs is supposedly more performant and common in data centers
    2. having a separate partition mounted at /home allows for os reinstalls or even distro swaps while retaining my home directory contents (assuming my user is the same)
    3. most of the contents I want backed up are held in /home. I don't want snapshots of my entire system laying around
    4. I like being extra