I have a 140G RAID5 array that I would like to back up to my 20/40 DDS4
Seagate drive.
Without a lot of experience with a drive this large, I've made a 100M
/boot partition, a 2G swap partition (I have 1G of ram), and finally the
rest of the drive ~137G set to /.
I've allocated 20G to /tmp for
Just a recommendation (outside of backup really) but
you should make your 137G LVM controlled so you have
to power to control where it goes. I would make /
like 5 GB or whatever you like, but use the rest of
the space for various filesystems like /home /database
/usr/local and make them LVM
