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Sounds good to me, let's make America pay for 11/12th of the cleanup and Canada can cover the last 1/12 as per their emission ratios

Biggest factor I can think of is your recovery strategy, if downtime is OK data and simplicity is key I'd honestly take option 1 and copy the files and directories directly to the new drive (with xfs or something on it).

Dd'ing anything else a la option 2 and 3 (LUKS container/LVM LV) will increase the size of your backups, because all empty blocks will be copied exactly as they are (even more so in the encrypted version as they become almost uncompressible).

That being said, its possible to "qemu-img convert" the entire 16TB LVM LV into a Qcow2 file, so you could later clone/attach it if a disked failed with the added benefit of qcow compressing those annoying zeros (but still doesn't beat the space efficiency of just copying the files cause non-zero but empty blocks probably exist).

I'd avoid option 4 and dd'ing the LVM physical volumes, because it can get a bit annoying dealing with duplicate PV UUID's. I could only seeing this being a choice if you are handling consistency somehow and want to be able to replace SSD's without much down time.

All that being said damn I'm jelly, you have as much storage in 5 drives as I do in like 20.

Whoops, yeah should have probably put a link in the main thing,

here's a fourm post describing how to

Theres a hidden option to make it multi core, which (on a machine like a threadripper) can insanely speed up the process.

edit: here's a fourm post describing how to

I was gonna say try estrogen but I see youre already one of us lmao

That makes sense, so its hibernation not a disk cache (kinda a workaround to the same concept, but won't have any impact gaming)

What about something like LVM cache? Would it be worth setting up an X% empty partition on the drive, just for empty space reasons?

I'm the last person to support landlords, but a dehumidifier is essentially a heat pump, whereas an ac is a heat pump in reverse - both arent 100% efficient though, and so are using power to remove heat, then power to create heat is at best wasted power.

That being said I can't imagine op would even be able to survive with a heat pump warming their place in this weather anyways.

I'd theorize it'd to not sound like theyre shitting on periods too much

Its a global conspiracy against you personally

Dehumidifier and AC is a massive waste of power and generally doesnt do anything, and the hot/cold difference creates a vortex pulling in hot and expelling cold.

Yeah I'd consider that an unusual setup, most users probably aren't using that combo of hardware (and possibly outdated software with its windows 7 screenshots in the link).

Also notably it only supports up to 64GB cache drives, so the OS/filesystem implimentation case would include OPs situation - regardless of the CPU/manufacturer theyre using.