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multi-boot, Encrypted Volumes, My struggle in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Dark_Armadill0@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all heroes wear capes. But you, doubtlessly, do. Thank you. Thank you so much. This is why I went full penguin.

I WILL give Gentoo another try. She calls me. I just need to understand flags a bit more...

P.S. there was also a bloodbath regarding Grub. Neither of the two OS'es did the os-probesuccessfully, so I botched something up, there, too.

multi-boot, Encrypted Volumes, My struggle in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Dark_Armadill0@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

... Go on... ^_^ I'm all ears. I'm not a poweruser but I've been a penguin for about a decade now. Learned via trial by fire. Never gave up, and went completely Windozeless back in 2017.

Don't regret a thing (except that one unsuccessful stint with Gentoo... Don't hate me!)

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multi-boot, Encrypted Volumes, My struggle (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dark_Armadill0@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Seriously you guys. I love tinkering. I never give up. I feel like I've failed here, having used about 4 promising tutorials found online. Just can't make it all play right.

So here's my end goal: RAID __ (mobo has x3 M.2 slots) across x3 one TB nvme drives (I have 1 nvme drive right now, but this is good to plan for NOW)

1TB nvme drive with 3 Linux OSes:

120GB to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 Jammy LTS

120GB to Debian 12 LTS "Bookworm"

120GB to Qubes-OS

That's 360GB/1TB so far.

512GB shared btrfs encrypted Home partiton for all the OSes to use.

872GB/1TB on the nvme M.2 drive.

Finally... 128GB encrypted space for... stuff.

1TB/1TB usage on nvme M.2 drive

Hotay.

So what I run into, is a fight between Ubuntu Studio (Debian-based) and my GNU/Linux Debian OSes.

Ubuntu Studio offers to encrypt the /boot partiton in the LVM.

Debian12 shrieks this isn't possible (encrypting the /boot partiton in the LVM).

But they're both Debian-based. So there has to be common ground here.

I haven't even wrestled with Qubes-OS installation (OS #3) at this point (have used it in the past, it's delightful).

So. I'm going to wipe it all again for the umpteenth time, and I await your suggestions, pearls of wisdom, and potential "pitfalls/gotcha's" regarding my vision.

Thank you in advance, you're wonderful!

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Official Monero GUI issues - downloading blockchain again? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dark_Armadill0@lemmy.ml to c/moneromining@monero.town

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Good day, fellow deviants. It is I, Dark_Armadill0.

So I found myself running into an error with the Official Monero GUI (monero-gui-linux-x64-v0.18.2.2). The error: when trying to mine with P2Pool, the Status says: Starting P2Pool and doesn’t update/change/improve. It hangs. For hours. Like overnight. I see nothing happening via my System Monitor (think Task Manager in Windoze), nor any helpful pop-up or message from the Official Monero GUI. P2Pool log offered no helpful insight, other than something about monerod out of sync, retrying in 1s and spamming the log with that same message.

So, realizing things just aren't working correctly, I decided to wipe the Official Monero GUI from my system and start over. This said, the Monero GUI remembered my previous settings. I want a totally clean slate here. I closed the app, and relaunched the Monero GUI this time with superuser rights (think Admin powers in the Windoze world), and it started syncing the Blockchain. Again. Which means I fear there are now two copies of the blockchain being saved to my disk. I’m running out of space fast, and the GUI keeps on downloading more.

Burning question 1: Where is the P2Pool blockchain saved on Linux systems? Can I delete the directory/contents so that I have a fresh clean slate, to then re-downloaded the P2Pool Blockchain?

Burning question 2: Is this the best course of action for me to take? Or am I going needlessly too far in trying to solve a “Starting P2Pool” hanging error message?

Burning question 3: I see in the fresh instance of Monero GUI that there is no longer a P2Pool log file. It's pretty spartan in the Monero GUI directory. What to do here?

Thanks in advance!