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Yes, mostly. You need to be aware that certain directories in your home folder may impact your new install, like .config, .local...etc. Rename those, and keep a backup, or exclude them initially on the copy over.
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Are you sure even need a second partition?
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You can just give the space where needed between root and home. Partition schemes are very subjective to user preference. I have 5 for instance, with my home taking the bulk of all space, so it's portable.
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Encryption would be done at the filesystem, not the device. It may have an acceleration chip (I don't know), but if any drive "has encryption", it would be to a hardware key on a controller board. Not a feature you generally see outside of storage array controllers, but maybe your board has that. In any case, I would opt for LUKS instead if you're unfamiliar.
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- Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Exactly the sort of detail I made this post for.
- Pretty sure, unless partitions can span multiple drives or something? I want to keep the data on my hdd home where it is, except for the games. Too much to move anyway. For the new ssd, I want an os partition and a data partition like I have now, but this will be mostly for games that will benefit from the speed; I'll use the hdd for media files and such. Once all that is up and working, I can get rid of the stuff on the old ssd and use it for more game space or whatever.
- I just want games and os on the ssd, and data files on the hdd. 3 parts is all I know atm.
- Idk anything about it, I just see all these ssds advertising their "256 bit aes encryption" or whatever. I tried looking it up, and could read how great it was, but not what it was like to actually use it, particularly under linux. It's not a big deal that I even use it really, I just wanted to make sure that I don't screw something else up just because it's there and I don't know what to expect.
Self encrypting drives are non-trivial to configure in Linux. I’d stick with LUKS software encryption unless there is a good reason to use it. More and more drives are supporting hardware encryption with OPAL though.
If your drive is unlocking itself automatically all the time without authentication, any encryption it is doing doesn’t really matter since someone could just pop it into any machine and read from it.