backup & low downtime for home network

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:46:26PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> While we're at it, does anyone have suggestions as to how I should carve 
> up the drive (/, /home, /var et  al.)?
> 
> I'm going to be multitrack recording with audacity, and I'll have maybe 
> a hundred songs (.ogg) as well. OO, printing, and all the other usual 
> suspects.

Personally I do:
/ 20GB
LVM the rest

Then in LVM I create:
some swap
/home (whatver I think my user account will need, so usually 10 or 20GB)
/data (everything else which is where I store lots of things and where I
point /var/lib/postgres if I run a database, and various other things.
Perhaps I ought to just call it /var and be done with it)

Using LVM makes it easy to resize later if needed, and to add more space
later if you need it by adding more disks to the LVM and expanding
existing volumes.

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Len Sorensen
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