On Friday 17 April 2015 15:09:33 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:54:26 -0400 > > Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 17 April 2015 12:31:02 David Christensen wrote: > > > Okay, "all the eggs in one basket". So, either a USB flash drive > > > or the newer 1 TB drive as the system drive, migrate your data to > > > a new 2 TB drive, migrate the Amanda archives to the other new 2 > > > TB drive, and then keep the older 1 TB drive as a spare or use it > > > as an on-site copy of the Amanda archives. > > > > The 1T drive is a great plenty for an install. And a 1T partition > > for /opt and a 1T partition for /home on a 2T seems about as > > expansion proof as I can make it barring shooting a few more > > weddings with my movie camera. Those files are some north of a > > gigabyte per running minute. > > Just a suggestion: have you considered running LVM on (some of) your > new drives? Like, on a 2T drive, set 500G or whatever you need > for /opt, a good amount of space for /home, and leave a great chunk > for future expansion where you may need it? Then you also have the > ability to take a snapshot of /home for when you run your backups, as > to make sure you get a consistent image? > > If need be, you can also expand your LVM volume group later with > additional drives. > > It's easy to set up and work with, and very flexible. Quite a benefit > on huge, modern drives. > > If you want to be expansion proof, as you say, then this is a good way > of doing just that. > > Petter
I might look into it. My last foray into that territory was with a fedora install, single digit version and it was a lost it all disaster. And I never did learn what actually failed. But I am now a bit wary of LVM's in general. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
