On 18 October 2011 18:02, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:54:32 +0100, Lisi wrote: > >> 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. > <snip> > > I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files, plus > daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I use ext2 > to avoid the overhead of journalling, but do carry out an e2fsck from > time to time. > I have an external 500gb usb h/d formatted ext3, which i use for rsync backups every three hours. So far its worked okay.
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