My 2 cents follows. SumnerBoy;262176 Wrote: > > So what is the real benefit of having your OS on a different drive to > your data store? Or more importantly what is the downside of having the > OS and store on the same drive/partition? The significant advantage is that you can completely blow away or replace your OS very easily without affecting your music collection. There may also be a tiny performance issue but nothing you will ever notice. > > Am I better to install the OS on the 160GB 2.5" and then buy another > drive (probably 3.5") and use this for the data store? My Mini-ITX case > has 1x2.5" and 1x3.5" bays. I don't agree with this because the OS partition only needs to be very small. I'd buy a single big disk (e.g. 320/400G which are best price points) and allocate 30G to the OS partition (still way too big but future-proof) and the rest to a music/data partition. Add a second disk later when/if you ever overflow that data partition with music.
Use ext3, don't consider anything else. Your partition sizes are not set in stone anyhow. You can boot from a linux live CD and resize them using gparted if you really need to. -- bulletmark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bulletmark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42273 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
