why? The hard drive won't be transferred... Just share the linux filesystems with samba if you need windows access.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:40 AM, cmcanulty <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > 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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