Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive
Hi Marc,
Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro:
> 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?
LVM. Really. For that size.
If you want to boot from it, have a 100-250 MiB big /boot. Rest LVM.
Unless you want to have some exchange possibilities with Windows users,
then put some FAT32 or NTFS partition on it as well. NTFS gives you more
than 4 GB maximum filesize. ntfs-3g can write NTFS.
I would recommend Ext4 for fast fsck times even if you do not intend to
store really large files on it.
Ciao,
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