Well, ext3 is probably a good choice. But I am not an expert on journalized file systems... As for the mount point, you do NOT want to use /usr for this. This option if for someone that is running out of room on /, and is adding space by way of a new partition. You could create another directory off of /home for the new drive, create one in /mnt, or create on off of /. I don't remember what the file system standard is for that. Personally, I would create something like /data or /shared as a mount point.On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 15:25, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
What Journalized file system to pick is not a cut and dried decision. It depends on what kinds of data you are going to put on the drive, and who you are asking the question. So you will need to provide more information before you can even hope for a meaningful answer.
The drive would be for storing and sorting out files, music and graphics. "The Storage Place" basically on our small network here. I have quite a lot of MP3s and that is all in one place for myself and my father to use, and it's also the storage place for my brothers iRiver collection (as he doesn't have a PC)
Making the drive one partition is not a problem. Depending on how big it is, and how you are planning to do backups, it may make since to split it up though. You may also want to use a chunk of the drive as a swap partition...
Mikkel
Ahh. I see.
When I chose ext3 I was asked about the name of it and did I want to move \usr over or hide it?!
I've had a look on the web but most the responses i've seen is for putting a new installation on, not so much adding a drive later down the line.
At the moment the /home folder has a "shared" folder in there that is the Samba drive. Close on 60gb there. I'd like to run it side by side with the new 80gb and stuff.....
Does that help??
Cheers, Elwyn
Now, if you were going to be moving the current data to the new drive, then I would use the current shared directory as the mount point.
Mikkel --
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