On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:59:15PM +0100, Steven wrote: > An interesting view, I'll keep it in mind when/if reinstalling the > laptop, it has 2 physical drives, each 160 GB. Only the first one is > slightly less due to a swap partition. Currently the whole disk is used > for /, and the second one is mounted somewhere on /media. > > Now considering a desktop system like mine, how would that play out? > The system has a 2GB /boot partition on an SSD, and / is the remaining > of that SSD (let's say 57GB). A partition of another regular drive is > used as /home (476GB). > Then there are 2 md raid arrays, each consisting of 2 drives 1TB in > size, raid 1 (mirror), both mounted as data arrays under /media. All > file systems are ext3. > > Obviously the SSD is quite fast when checking so not an issue, /home > however takes about 15 minutes, and each raid array approximately 45 > minutes. > > Or would in this case another file system be a better option for the > large partitions? Ext4 comes to mind. The system is not backed by a UPS > so power failures do happen (although not often). > > Such large arrays hold all kinds of data, from large images (both cd, > dvd and hard drives of over 120 GB) to small text files. > > Thank you for your time. >
Nice sounding system. I am more the old notebook enthusiast/hobbyist though. I would worry about ramifications of partitioning solid state drives without research. I haven't had any problems with ext4 that I am aware of yet. Regarding RAID, I have read that partitioning is advantageous for expansions. But that remains contingent on the controller, the level, the implementation and the objective. Again, I just started looking at the possibility of a RAID storage in the far future! Many discussion to Google on that! -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110208214012.GA9047@Europa.office
