Re: Partitioning of new machine - thank you

2014-08-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/11/14, b-m...@gmx.ch wrote: > On Saturday 09 August 2014 11.11:08 Gary Dale wrote: >> >> To preserve your archive, I'd advise PAR2 redundancy files to fix any >> problems that may crop up. So long as your HD copies are good, you don't >> need to go to the PAR2 files, but should one develop a

Re: Partitioning of new machine - thank you

2014-08-10 Thread b-misc
On Saturday 09 August 2014 11.11:08 Gary Dale wrote: > > To preserve your archive, I'd advise PAR2 redundancy files to fix any > problems that may crop up. So long as your HD copies are good, you don't > need to go to the PAR2 files, but should one develop a problem, you can > fix it with the PAR2

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-09 Thread Bob Proulx
AW wrote: > "B. M." wrote: > > optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the > > next 10 years :-) > > I've found that using lvm is a great idea. Resizing volumes is incredibly > easy. You can even easily resize a volume to occupy a portion of a new HDD. > So, my recommendation for new

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-09 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, B. M. wrote: > Le 9 août 2014 à 05:44, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > > On Fri, 08 Aug 2014, B. M. wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > [snip] > >> > >> What do you think about the following: > >> > >> === SSD: === > >> /boot unencrypted, 300 MB > >> / ex

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-09 Thread B. M.
Le 9 août 2014 à 05:44, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > On Fri, 08 Aug 2014, B. M. wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine >> (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme >> which should last for the next 10 years :-) > > 10 years migh

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/08/14 03:08 AM, B. M. wrote: Le 9 août 2014 à 06:04, Gary Dale a écrit : On 08/08/14 06:14 AM, B. M. wrote: Hi all, While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the next 10 years :-) Th

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-09 Thread B. M.
Le 9 août 2014 à 06:04, Gary Dale a écrit : > On 08/08/14 06:14 AM, B. M. wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) >> I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the >> next 10 years :-) >> >> The system looks l

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/14 06:14 AM, B. M. wrote: Hi all, While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the next 10 years :-) The system looks like: Haswell 3.4 GHz 8 GB RAM (later upgradeable up to 32 GB) 250 G

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014, B. M. wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine > (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme > which should last for the next 10 years :-) 10 years might be an overly optimistic expectation unless you plan on upgradi

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread David Christensen
On 08/08/2014 03:14 AM, B. M. wrote: While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the next 10 years :-) The system looks like: Haswell 3.4 GHz 8 GB RAM (later upgradeable up to 32 GB) 250 GB SSD 2

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:50:49 +0200 "B. M." wrote: > Why should I keep /home off the SSD? Every download, every user specific config change, goes in the /home tree. That's a lot of writing, and some of the downloads can be quite big. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshoote

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread B. M.
Le 8 août 2014 à 17:16, Steve Litt a écrit : > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:14:31 +0200 > "B. M." wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine >> (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme >> which should last for the next 10 years :-) >>

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2014 06:14 AM, B. M. wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) > I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the > next 10 years :-) > > The system looks like: >

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:14:31 +0200 "B. M." wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine > (testing/jessie) I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme > which should last for the next 10 years :-) > > The system looks like: > Haswell 3.4 GHz > 8 GB RAM (late

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread AW
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:14:31 +0200 "B. M." wrote: > optimal partitioning scheme which should last for the > next 10 years :-) I've found that using lvm is a great idea. Resizing volumes is incredibly easy. You can even easily resize a volume to occupy a portion of a new HDD. So, my recommenda

Re: Partitioning of new machine

2014-08-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/8/14, B. M. wrote: > Hi all, > > While I'm waiting for the components of my new machine (testing/jessie) > I'm thinking about the optimal partitioning scheme which should last for > the > next 10 years :-) > > The system looks like: > Haswell 3.4 GHz > 8 GB RAM (later upgradeable up to 32 GB)