The main reason for moving my home directories to a ZFS file system is ZFS’s support for snapshots. I have found them quite handy on server systems when something has been accidentally deleted, a software upgrade has failed, or software has not done what it promised. A simple rollback to a previous state can help…
Tag: Debian
Additional LUKS Encrypted Devices on Encryped Debian Trixie
My notebook runs a fully encrypted version of Debian 13 (including the root filesystem and SWAP). Now it’s time to activate a second NVMe device. This should also be encrypted, but I don’t want to have to specify the passphrase for that device every time I reboot. Instead, the key file should be located on…
Hibernation with Debian 13 Trixie on TUXEDO Stellaris 17
Since more than a year I use the TUXEDO Stellaris 17 Intel Gen6 Notebook for daily development. Ubuntu 24.04 is working there quite well. Thanks to TUXEDO, the hardware support if great but one thing what made me cringe was the lack of hibernation support and sporadic wake-ups can be frustrating and dangerous if the…