On Mi, 23 iun 10, 10:22:29, Arthur Machlas wrote: > Greetings, > > I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB > after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home" > and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for > two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage > device for movies, videos and music I don't like. One laptop is > Windows, one is Debian Squeeze. > > I'd like a few partitions on it... > 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or > three "snapshots" Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for "regular" operations. > 2) ext4 encrypted for my /home/arthur/documents folder as backup > 3) ntfs? encrypted for girlfriends "my documents/documents" folder. > 4) 700GB for backups of pictures from both Debian and XP.. filesystem ... ntfs? > 5) 700GB for movies, which would be served (via Debian) to a ps3, not > backups, primary storage. Ntfs? You only need ntfs if you expect the drive to be *directly* connected to a Windows computer or some other device that doesn't understand extX filesystems. If the drive will only be connected to a Debian machine and the partitions accessed via samba the Windows computers doesn't access the filesystem. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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