Chapter 9. More Filesystems

Encrypt your hard drive? Software RAID can save your day, or ruin your life.

Disk management isn’t complicated, but there’s enough material that it gets two chapters. Lucky you! In this chapter, we’ll start with how to automatically back up your vital root partition to a second disk. Then we’ll explore how OpenBSD can use additional memory as disk space via a memory filesystem and how to set that up. Next, we’ll access disks formatted for other operating systems, such as NTFS, ext2, and FAT. Removable media isn’t difficult to work with, but has its own concerns. If you don’t need the actual media, but can ...

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