Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux,
I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my
current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the
boot drive and use the new drive primarily for extra storage. Since I
don't do regular backups (I already know what you will say about that) I
am also wondering what I might be able to do, now that I have space, for
a little added security in that matter. Perhaps I could just copy the
40GB boot drive to a backup directory tree and keep it updated with
rsync, or some such? Any ideas on that?
My main question, however, was partitioning the 1TB drive. I have never
had this much space to deal with. While it may be technically possible
to simply make one big partition, I am guessing that it is probably not
a practical way to do it (and I will want several different partitions,
anyway). If I am using ext3 partitions with neither vast numbers of tiny
files, nor small numbers of monstrously large files, what is a
reasonable maximum size for a partition that will be easy on the file
system and the drive, itself?