Re: Installing debian on N2100

["Andrew Haswell" <ahaswell@edoras.co.uk>]

Thanks for all the great advice John

ofc i am going to blow away both drives before i start, hence alot of house 
keepingh going on first so i have less data to offload!

I will likely do what you suggest, 10G for root and 1G for swap and use the 
rest for data

I will post when i have my system up and running!

thanks again
Andy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Winters" <john@sinodun.org.uk>
To: <debian-arm@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: Installing debian on N2100


> Andrew Haswell wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Winters" <john@sinodun.org.uk>
> > > Andrew Haswell wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > can you give me some advice as to what partitions to create, can i get 
> > > > away with just root and swap or is it worth considering more 
> > > > granularity.
> > > >
> > > > I will install Debian on 1 HDD to start and add the other in after, 
> > > > mirror the debian partitions, then create data partitions.
> > >
> > > How big are your hard discs?
> >
> > I've got 2x 500GB Seagate Drives in it at the moment, i doubt i will
> > ever do anything particularly taxing with it on the linux side, will
> > probably use it for a LAMP type install, samba, then usual media
> > software.
>
> I'd probably go for some variation on my usual set-up there.  A 10G 
> partition on each disc, RAIDed with RAID1 for /.  Then perhaps a 1G 
> partition on each, again RAID1, for swap.  Then put the whole of the rest 
> of each disc into a single large partition, again RAID1, but use the 
> resulting device as a physical volume for LVM and allocate LVs from that 
> as needed.
>
> HTH
> John
>
>
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