On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:54:26 -0400 Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> wrote: > On Friday 17 April 2015 12:31:02 David Christensen wrote: > > Okay, "all the eggs in one basket". So, either a USB flash drive or > > the newer 1 TB drive as the system drive, migrate your data to a > > new 2 TB drive, migrate the Amanda archives to the other new 2 TB > > drive, and then keep the older 1 TB drive as a spare or use it as > > an on-site copy of the Amanda archives. > > The 1T drive is a great plenty for an install. And a 1T partition > for /opt and a 1T partition for /home on a 2T seems about as > expansion proof as I can make it barring shooting a few more weddings > with my movie camera. Those files are some north of a gigabyte per > running minute. Just a suggestion: have you considered running LVM on (some of) your new drives? Like, on a 2T drive, set 500G or whatever you need for /opt, a good amount of space for /home, and leave a great chunk for future expansion where you may need it? Then you also have the ability to take a snapshot of /home for when you run your backups, as to make sure you get a consistent image? If need be, you can also expand your LVM volume group later with additional drives. It's easy to set up and work with, and very flexible. Quite a benefit on huge, modern drives. If you want to be expansion proof, as you say, then this is a good way of doing just that. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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