Re: wheezy drive recognition?
On Friday 17 April 2015 15:09:33 Petter Adsen wrote:
> 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 might look into it. My last foray into that territory was with a
fedora install, single digit version and it was a lost it all disaster.
And I never did learn what actually failed. But I am now a bit wary of
LVM's in general.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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