Re: Partitioning of new machine - thank you
On 8/11/14, b-misc@gmx.ch <b-misc@gmx.ch> wrote:
> On Saturday 09 August 2014 11.11:08 Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>> To preserve your archive, I'd advise PAR2 redundancy files to fix any
>> problems that may crop up. So long as your HD copies are good, you don't
>> need to go to the PAR2 files, but should one develop a problem, you can
>> fix it with the PAR2 files. Having 5% to 10% redundancy is a lot cheaper
>> than RAID1.
>>
>> You can automate the PAR2 creation by checking for new files and
>> creating PAR2s for them.
>
> Thank you all for the great ideas and opinions.
>
> I've decided to use only one internal ext4 partition w/o any RAID for the
> photos together with par2 for the anti-bit rot plus the external backup.
No probs! :)
I imagine my suggestion for a 30GiB systemd partition made all the difference...
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