Migrating System to NVME RAID0 : Update - Lemmy.World

First of all, thanks to everyone who came out and offered their suggestions and advice yesterday. Many called me mad for going for RAID0 here but … shrug its not my only computer so I’m ok being a bit risky here. My original plan was to backup, set up the drives in raid, install nobara on the raid array, and ride off into the sunset. That was a bad plan. Timeshift froze while backing up, and worse, back in time froze while restoring. Repeatedly. Even when booting from a live usb and without enabling RAID. Wasted several hours trying variations of that … my USB drive is kinda slow. On my last post someone suggested I simply add the new drive to an existing btrfs file system, then switch to a raid0 profile. That was a good plan, and ultimately what I ended up doing after my plan failed. Resources : https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Btrfs/Adding_and_removing_devices [https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Btrfs/Adding_and_removing_devices] https://www.ubuntumint.com/add-new-device-to-btrfs-file-system/ [https://www.ubuntumint.com/add-new-device-to-btrfs-file-system/] https://serverfault.com/questions/213861/multi-device-btrfs-filesystem-with-disk-of-different-size [https://serverfault.com/questions/213861/multi-device-btrfs-filesystem-with-disk-of-different-size] Commands I ran on my machine : sudo fdisk -l sudo lsblk sudo mkdir /mnt/drive1 sudo btrfs device add /dev/nvme1n1 /mnt/drive1 -f btrfs filesystem df / sudo btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid0 / Performance 6229 read 4497 write [https://postimg.cc/xkLXfc8q] PS Even though my restore failed, the files were all there so I didn’t lose anything , I just had to reinstall all my programs and such.