On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Nikos Alexandris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know, I know... it's off the lists topic! But I need some help. > Probably I am going to "migrate" soon all of my stuff in a new > linux-box. So I would like to collect best practice tips concerning the > following: > > > OS: > OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything > (right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using > Debian instead of Ubuntu for example? >
I use Debian/Unstable -- but several aspects of Ubuntu are appealing. > Filesystems: > Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any > important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3? I have heard a lot of good things about XFS, although I use ext3 for several of my partitions. Several of our servers in the department use XFS for everything, and we have had good success with them over the last 4 years. I would steer clear of ReiserFS. > > Partitions: > Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. Have > you split further your partition based on other criteria, always related > with "working with geospatial data"? I like putting all of my GRASS data on a seperate disk-- so that IO intensive operations on GIS data do not slow my machine to a crawl. Alternatively a scratch disk for the /tmp/ folder might be nice too. > Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe? I just keep mine in my home folder. > > Organisation: > GRASS takes care to organise the data inside the GIS data-base and its > fantastic. But what about the "raw" data? How do you organise them? > Manually everything? Any tool to be more productive? > I keep non-GRASS GIS data in a folder of its own - 'gis_data' . No fancy cataloging, just the file system. Something like ArcCatalog (without all of the cruft) would be interesting. gdalinfo / ogrinfo are used to check on coordinate system details. > BackUp: > How often do you backup your data? Do you just copy or do you compress > as well? What is safer? Every afternoon-- using rsync. > > Other: > Any other important issues when setting-up a new foss-geo-box? > make sure all of the development packages get installed before compiling from source. This can usually be sorted out by running ./configure and looking for errors. make sure that there is no overlap between what the package manager has installed and things you plan to install from source. > Thank you, Nikos > > P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of > this thread. Or maybe not... :-) > That would be helpful. Cheers, Dylan _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
