Consider putting one formatted as NTFS so wondows users could read.
On Jan 9, 11:40 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm with Jerry here - recovery is a snap, and you never need to setup the > cron job, or verify that it ran correctly. Also, if you use LVM you can > resize the partitions on the fly, and there's no need to have a particular > layout chosen right now. You can use RAID 1, have 1TB of space with, say, > 100GB allocated, and then grow partitions reactively as your data usage > grows. This way you can always add an additional partition if need be. > (Having different apps store data on different partitions means they can't > cause each other disk-space headaches) > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Not true. RAID 1 is instantaneous mirroring. rsync runs only when you set > > it to. RAID 1 is really easy to set up and reliable. > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 20:10, u4david <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I would set up firts harddrive: > > >> and then second hard drive set up us a mirror of the first drive . > >> use rsync,cronjob. > > >> This way no need for raid. > >> But have backups at your finger tips. > >> and if the first disc fails just reconfigure the mirror as "master" > >> and adjust boot grub options and caboom back to original(last backup > >> version of mirrored rsynced copy) > > >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hello, > >> > I have a customer who wants a new server. I convinced him to go with > >> Linux > >> > instead of Windows. He then asked at the end that I put 2-1TB drives in > >> the > >> > server. I assume the second is for storage b/c they deal with pretty > >> large > >> > files. > >> > In your opinion, what should I do with the second drive? Should I put > >> Linux > >> > on both drives? I was going to do a data partition on the first drive > >> ... > >> > if I did that for both, that would be 4 partitions. What is the best > >> way to > >> > handle this? > >> > I know this is a rather silly question, but I am unsure how to best > >> utilize > >> > the space on the 2nd drive. It's tempting to put it in an external > >> casing > >> > and just use it as a backup drive. I don't know. > >> > Opinions welcome, since you're all brilliant. TIA. > >> > ~kari > > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > >> > Group. > >> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> > For more options, visit our group at > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > >> Group. > >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> For more options, visit our group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > Group. > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit our group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > -- > > Daniel
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