No but I rebooted the system after the change. do still need to update it regardless the reboot?

no, I just removed them with the live cd and repartitioned it (Im assuming its doing the same thing under the hood?)

editing the /etc/fstab didnt work (I just changed the path but not sure if the uuid plays any part) but ill give the rm/mkdir part a go

the command returns my user dir and a lost+found dir

yes it is a symlink to /var/home

do you encrypt them?

Im curious on why you are using zfs snapshots? (i never used them myself as I handle my backups with duplicity)

exciting but def not for me :)

if its sealed airtight why do you need to replace them every 6 months?

thats a good advice though… to match my paranoia levels I would add a fireproof + faraday box

i few drives that I have are 10yod and a couple more 5+…

do modern drives meant to last and be replaced every a couple of years?

I dont mind if a drive fails because ill have dupes… what I want is to minimize the failures.

wd red+ and wd ae make look promising but i dont have an experience with them