Very good point, thank you for chiming in.

I was wondering if anyone would bring up Incus. I’m still pretty new to all this. From what I can tell, there seems to be a larger community around Proxmox, but I’ve seen enough mentions of Incus to pique my curiosity. I’ll have to explore this some more. Thanks for mentioning it.

Good point, thanks for clarifying that. I suppose the theft scenario is iffy, but it’ll still help in case I ever sell (or junk) the disk.

Good to know. Thanks!

Peace of mind.

Thanks for the tip. I have no experience w/ ZFS, but I’ll keep this in mind in case I go that route. Thank you!

Thanks, I’ll look into dropbear. I’ve seen it mentioned in other posts, and with a quick search I found what appears to be a nice, solid guide: Full Disk Encryption Reboot with DropbearSSH. Thank you!