Re: Formatting external HDD
On 18 October 2011 18:02, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:54:32 +0100, Lisi wrote:
>
>> I have just acquired a one T HDD for use as an external HDD. I now need
>> to decide how to partition it. I am intending to use it for backup
>> purposes, and have bought what seems ot me ot be a very large disk so
>> that things can be added or grow.
>>
>> I want flexibility, but am not well enough informed to use an LVM.
>> Moreover, I understand that with new HDDs one has to worry about
>> partition boundaries, and again, I am not well enough informed to be
>> able to achieve this, and anyhow I don't know how big the partitions
>> will need to be, nor even what partitions I shall need.
>>
>> Would it be feasible ot have one large partition on the drive, and then
>> use directories rather than partitions for the different back-ups?
>> Could I do this with cp (obviously), dd, rsync, Clonezilla, or even
>> something I don't know about yet? Would this be a reasonable plan?
>>
>> And what filing system? I am currently using ext 3, but ma about to
>> reinstall and may well use ext 4, if it is available for Lenny.
> <snip>
>
> I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files, plus
> daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I use ext2
> to avoid the overhead of journalling, but do carry out an e2fsck from
> time to time.
>
I have an external 500gb usb h/d formatted ext3, which i use for rsync
backups every three hours. So far its worked okay.
Sharon.
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