On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > This drive will be booting Debian so my question is not totally > off-topic. Some older P.C. BIOS programs will not boot any drive > over 32GB. Can you get a larger drive, partition it with a 32 GB > boot partition and expect it to work that way with the remainder > of the drive available for more space such as /home?
Usually yes. The exception is that some BIOSes have problems even recognizing the existence of a disk larger than X TB, where X=2 or 3. > Maybe a better form of this question is- Are there any > unexpected gotchas likely in using SDA1 for the boot drive and > SDA2-x for the rest? It will probably be SDA2 for most of the > rest with SDA3 being extended and SDA5 swap. No, this is perfectly normal. > My 300 GB drive still works but it is around 8 years old and is a > spinning electro mechanical type and it will fail some day about > a millisecond after it was working perfectly. That is the way these things go. General reminders that you probably don't need, but someone will: RAID is for uptime, backups are for recovery. If you don't have an automatic backup, you probably don't have a current backup. If you don't store your backup in a format that you can read without special hardware or software, you probably won't have that hardware or software when you need it the most. -dsr-
