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howto 2016-04-23

Full-disk encryption with Btrfs on Ubuntu Xenial

Btrfs is a copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem available in the standard Linux kernel, which provides advanced features like snapshotting and volume management, similarly to what LVM provides.

I've been using LVM on my laptop for quite some time, to keep separate volumes for filesystem root and /home, and containers. LVM makes …

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howto 2016-04-09

Install all needed packages in one go

Installing a new workstation (or reinstalling one) is quite a boring task; the OS setup itself is pretty quick, but then you have to install all the tools and applications you use every day.

I end up reinstalling both my laptop and desktop quite often, almost every time a new …

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