Hi Lisi, Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 schrieb Lisi: > I have just acquired a one T HDD for use as an external HDD. I now > need to decide how to partition it. I am intending to use it for > backup purposes, and have bought what seems ot me ot be a very large > disk so that things can be added or grow. > > I want flexibility, but am not well enough informed to use an LVM.
Its easy enough, but annoying that you should do vgchange -an before removing the drive. Thats fine for permanent disks but annoying for removable ones. Thus I reformatted my 2,5 inch additional data drive for my laptop with partitions again. For the backup drives I still use LVM. > Moreover, I understand that with new HDDs one has to worry about > partition boundaries, and again, I am not well enough informed to be > able to achieve this, and anyhow I don't know how big the partitions > will need to be, nor even what partitions I shall need. Use fdisk -c -u /dev/yourdrive (since Squeeze) and it aligns to 1 MiB boundaries which are good enough for all cases. It might be a bit of a waste, but with one TB IMHO it does not matter. > Would it be feasible ot have one large partition on the drive, and then > use directories rather than partitions for the different back-ups? > Could I do this with cp (obviously), dd, rsync, Clonezilla, or even > something I don't know about yet? Would this be a reasonable plan? For one TB that sounds fine, only thing is that fsck times will be higher for one big partitions. > And what filing system? I am currently using ext 3, but ma about to > reinstall and may well use ext 4, if it is available for Lenny. With Squeeze and up I suggest Ext4. Its stable from all what I can tell. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110201458.15645.mar...@lichtvoll.de
