I have just acquired a one T HDD for use as an external HDD. I now need to decide how to partition it. I am intending to use it for backup purposes, and have bought what seems ot me ot be a very large disk so that things can be added or grow.
I want flexibility, but am not well enough informed to use an LVM. Moreover, I understand that with new HDDs one has to worry about partition boundaries, and again, I am not well enough informed to be able to achieve this, and anyhow I don't know how big the partitions will need to be, nor even what partitions I shall need. Would it be feasible ot have one large partition on the drive, and then use directories rather than partitions for the different back-ups? Could I do this with cp (obviously), dd, rsync, Clonezilla, or even something I don't know about yet? Would this be a reasonable plan? And what filing system? I am currently using ext 3, but ma about to reinstall and may well use ext 4, if it is available for Lenny. My box is ill, possibly unto death. I want to change things one at a time, so that I can see what wrought the change, if change there be. I have a new IDE HDD (I don't think that my motherboard can boot form SATA or usb). So that will be the first change. Though I may go mad and change the CMOS battery while I am in there, thus changing two things at the same time. Thanks, Lisi -- 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/201110181754.32829.lisi.re...@gmail.com
