I'm preparing to archive data from 47 120G disks onto 5 1TB disks which will then sit on a shelf. They may never be accessed again. The 120G disks are filled to varying degrees. Total data is ~4.5TB.
I'm interested in making efficient use of the 1TB disks but also in maximizing integrity and usability in the future. Preserving the overall organization of the data (by original disk) is required. Filesystem is ext3. I see two choices: 1) Create 1 partition per disk and copy many original disks to it. 2) Create many partitions, each sized slightly larger than the space required for each original disk. Option 1 is easier and possibly more convenient to use. Option 2 seems potentially more robust. Thoughts ? ---- Brian McAllister Senior Software Engineer [email protected] Bates Research & Engineering Center (617) 253-9537 Middleton, MA _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
