On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:24:24PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > In the next couple of days I will have a much better computer. Not > 64bit, but at least faster and with more disk. > > It will have 4x1TB SATA drives, 4x250GB IDE/PATA drives and all the > memory it can use and a fast AMD socket AM2 processor. > > I'd like some suggestions on how to format/allocate the SATA drives. > I imagine that one of them will be the system disk with the other 3 > containing data, but ext2,3,4? Or other file system. LVM?, Raid? > > The IDE/PATA drives are on my existing machine, which is on its last > legs, and contain a mish-mash of mailboxes, web pages, genealogy > files, archives, etc. Probably not worth worrying about at this time. > > Anyway, if you have any recommendations, warnings, or other guidance, > I would appreciate hearing them!
Safe, fast option: Create two partitions on each disk: 100GB, and all the rest in the second partition. Use mdadm to make two RAID-10 devices. md0 will be 200GB of usable space, and can be your new root. md1 will be 1800GB of usable space. Make both of them ext4. Mount the big one as /home. -dsr-
