Hi Marc, Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by > Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous > thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to > keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive primarily for extra > storage. Since I don't do regular backups (I already know what you > will say about that) I am also wondering what I might be able to do, > now that I have space, for a little added security in that matter. > Perhaps I could just copy the 40GB boot drive to a backup directory > tree and keep it updated with rsync, or some such? Any ideas on that? > > My main question, however, was partitioning the 1TB drive. I have > never had this much space to deal with. While it may be technically > possible to simply make one big partition, I am guessing that it is > probably not a practical way to do it (and I will want several > different partitions, anyway). If I am using ext3 partitions with > neither vast numbers of tiny files, nor small numbers of monstrously > large files, what is a reasonable maximum size for a partition that > will be easy on the file system and the drive, itself?
LVM. Really. For that size. If you want to boot from it, have a 100-250 MiB big /boot. Rest LVM. Unless you want to have some exchange possibilities with Windows users, then put some FAT32 or NTFS partition on it as well. NTFS gives you more than 4 GB maximum filesize. ntfs-3g can write NTFS. I would recommend Ext4 for fast fsck times even if you do not intend to store really large files on it. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201109262044.11607.mar...@lichtvoll.de
