Re: Need help with disk config.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:24:24PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not
> 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk.
>
> It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the
> memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor.
>
> I'd like some suggestions on how to format/allocate the SATA drives.
> I imagine that one of them will be the system disk with the other 3
> containing data, but ext2,3,4? Or other file system. LVM?, Raid?
>
> The IDE/PATA drives are on my existing machine, which is on its last
> legs, and contain a mish-mash of mailboxes, web pages, genealogy
> files, archives, etc. Probably not worth worrying about at this time.
>
> Anyway, if you have any recommendations, warnings, or other guidance,
> I would appreciate hearing them!
Safe, fast option: Create two partitions on each disk: 100GB, and all the
rest in the second partition. Use mdadm to make two RAID-10 devices. md0
will be 200GB of usable space, and can be your new root. md1 will
be 1800GB of usable space. Make both of them ext4. Mount the big one
as /home.
-dsr-
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