Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-26 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>Le 26/09/2010 21:02, Celejar wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:28 +0200 >> Aniruddha wrote: >> >> Here's my opinion: >> >> ... >> >> * I think encryption is not well suited for a desktop system, unless >> you have some special need for it (e.g. laptop). It creates extra >> overhead, meaning it

Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:28 +0200 Aniruddha wrote: > Here's my opinion: ... > * I think encryption is not well suited for a desktop system, unless > you have some special need for it (e.g. laptop). It creates extra > overhead, meaning it is a lot slower then a normal file system + it > makes d

Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-25 Thread Angus Hedger
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:05:50 +0100 Charles Turner wrote: > I have two 80GB disks, which will hold my "system" files. > I have two 500GB disks which will be my home drive. > > I plan to mirror both sets of disks using RAID1. > > My mirrored 80GB disks will contain the following, the format of my

Re: Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-25 Thread Aniruddha
Here's my opinion: * I wouldn't use raid for a desktop system but a backup program such as rsnapshot. You can mirror each disk this way, the main advantage is that when you throw something away by accident it is still there in your backup while with raid you would have lost it. Raid (and lvm) ca

Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-25 Thread Charles Turner
I'm a new GNU/Linux user. I've recently received a desktop with lots of disk space and I've been thinking about how to use it effectively. It will contain lots of multimedia files, and later I want to set up mail & web servers on it, primarily for edification rather than production, so these are my