On 08/06/13 02:27, Fran wrote:
Hello list, I just installed Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" on what I call my new workstation. It's a pretty standard setup: right now I installed Debian on the first SATA drive (a 120Gb SSD drive) and mounted my 1Tb HDD as my home partition with no problems at all.
I have a set up in which I have a 200GB SSD and a pair of 2 TB HDDs. I did some things rather differently
1) I split the SSD into two partitions. The first one is 60GB and has root on it. The second is the rest and is an lvm volume group 2) My two HDD are both split into three partitions. 20GB at the front, then 12GB swap and the remainder for each half of a RAID1 setup with lvm sitting on top
My rationale for 1 is60GB is more than enough for a debian root - that allows me to allocate small elements of the ssd to parts of my home directory where I need speed. In my case one logical volume holds the file that is a virtualbox system disk for a Windows 7 virtual machine and another holds a software development project where there is also a sqlite database that I am accessing.
My rationale for 2 is- the 20GB partitions at the front of each of the two drives can each hold a backup configuration. I normally run sid, but I have wheezy installed on one of the two 20GB partitions to give me a fallback boot if sid gets screwed after an update. The other allows me to try other distributions - currently installed linux mint.
- I have some swap space to use- My home directory does not need anything like the rest of the 2TB - so I just allocate enough from the lvm that I need for now (but with the confidence I can extend it if I run out of space). The rest I use for backups of the SSD and as backup space for other systems at home.