On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 06:20:31PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:52:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > > > > > Then LVs for everything including swap. > > >
> lucky devil! no that makes sense to me. And if you're going to do > video editing, swap might become real crucial real quick. > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > Does this seem like a workable/wise plan or here there be dragons? Is > > > > there any reason to think that 20 GB is too small for a fully installed > > > > workstation including swap and /tmp (everything but /home)? > > > Is 20 G overkill? Would 15 G be fine? The risk is that if I guess too > > small, one can't extend a raid1, I'd have to make another raid1 and add > > it or some such gymnastics. In this case, drive space is cheap. > > > > I eventually want to get into video editing, watching TV and movies, and > > Lyx. I don't know how much disk space they use. How much does a fully > > loaded system take (I've never before had the horsepower to bother with > > such stuff). > > > > well this particular box has only been deb for about 6 weeks and I > haven't had time to get it all filled up yet, but the system (not > counting swap and home) is currently using 1.9G. I think my main box > at home is using about 4G in reality. so 20G's in my opinion is > probably overkill BUT since you're putting LVM over RAID, you can > always shrink those volumes later and add the extra raid into the rest > of your lv's... maybe? > When I had my 486 running as a file server exporting /usr via nfs to my P-II workstation which I think had everything but video, Lyx (and all the tetex stuff), and gimp, I had 8 GB in the 486 and 2 GB in the P-II. That included /home and /var/local/backup on both boxs where I kept the tar.bz2 backups prior to burning to CDROM. 850 MB of that was empty for /var/tmp (where xcdroast puts CD image files). I can shrink those volumes but can't take them out of the raid1 set, so: With a 20 GB raid1 that means: 60 GB on two drives =120 GB non-raid lvm + 20 GB raid1 = 140 GB total. With a 10 GB raid1 that means: 70 GB on two drives = 140 GB non-raid lvm + 10 GB raid1 = 150 GB total. So whatever I trim off the raid1 goes directly to the non-raid 1:1. Any idea how much swap/memory video editing takes assuming that I have a striped lv for working in? Thanks, Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
