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The Storage step was a technical dump: every check's full sentence concatenated onto the card, so the fstab line the user is meant to act on was buried in prose nobody reads. The card now shows plain facts and at most two short flags — "Low on space · Won't be mounted after a reboot" — with everything else behind a Details button. The modal carries the technical spec (device, UUID, mount options, removable), every check with its full explanation, and the fstab offer. That needed the shell to stop joining checks into one string: the generator emits a record per check, plus the fstab line as its own field, so neither the card nor the modal has to parse anything back out of the other. The screenshot caught a bug this restructure introduced: summaries keyed on check id alone, so a PASSING check printed the failure wording next to a green tick — "This drive's format can't store file ownership" above "Filesystem: ext4". Now severity-aware. On writing /etc/fstab — §1 ruled it out and §6.3 now records why that reverses. The warning is useless to the audience this is for: "add this line to fstab" assumes SSH, root, an editor, and knowing what fstab is, and the likely outcome is a reboot where nothing starts. What makes it defensible is nofail + x-systemd.device-timeout, which mean a missing device can never block boot — without that pair it would stay a non-goal, because the failure being risked (an unbootable machine) is worse than the one being fixed. Enforced in the root helper: UUID never /dev/sdX, append inside a marked block, refuse a target or UUID already described, refuse the root filesystem, require a live mount, timestamped backup, and `findmnt --verify` before the file is installed — a file that doesn't parse never reaches /etc. Opt-in only. Verified against a real filesystem: entry added and verifies, the persistence warning then disappears on the next scan, and duplicate / root-fs / non-mountpoint / relative are each refused with the reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.