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Description of the machine

Hardware

Gigabyte embedded AMD Epyc

OS

Manjaro Xfce Desktop

Configuration

Installation

Straight forward using these settings:

  • Keyboard German
  • encrypted disk with password
  • filesystem btrfs
  • disk with swap partition

Added Software

  • VNC Server
    The Desktop can be remotely controlled by either VNC or IPMI (HTML5, MegaRAC)
    Install VNC on Manjaro
  • SSH server
  • Bitwarden
  • conky (not really necessary)

Tweaks

join the sync queue of Firefox for the favorites

misc

default file manager Thunar

USB Drive mounting

I created two mountpoints:

  • /mnt/lacie
  • /mnt/armorlock

I added these two lines to /etc/fstab:

UUID=A9B7-5D47 /mnt/armorlock exfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
UUID=FFDF-F997 /mnt/lacie exfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,iocharset=utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Then I executed these commands:

systemctl daemon-reload
mount -a