As a result of my HDD crashed, I bought a replacement drive.
1 TB SATA and they were so cheap that I bought two of them.
So, I had always heard that it was a good idea to separate the operating system from the data and this was a good opportunity to try it.
Is that a fairly easy thing to do, IE separate everything associated with my or other user IDs on to a 2nd drive and leave openSUSE segregated on his own, 1-TB Drive. ? I know it sounds like maximum overkill but disk was cheap.
On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:16:03 +0000, hextejas wrote:
> OpenSUSE 12.3 KDE 4.10.5
>
> As a result of my HDD crashed, I bought a replacement drive.
> 1 TB SATA and they were so cheap that I bought two of them.
>
> So, I had always heard that it was a good idea to separate the operating
> system from the data and this was a good opportunity to try it.
>
> Is that a fairly easy thing to do, IE separate everything associated
> with my or other user IDs on to a 2nd drive and leave openSUSE
> segregated on his own, 1-TB Drive. ? I know it sounds like maximum
> overkill but disk was cheap.
>
> Probably not worth it.
I would be more inclined to mirror the data.
Splitting it between two unmirrored drives doubles the likelihood of a
failure taking part of the system out.
But doing what you want is pretty easy - when you get to the partitioning
part of the installation, you’ll just need to manually partition and use
all of one drive for / (except for /boot) and all of the other for /home
I have been trying to do a soft RAID-1 as System drive for over a week, and it still in progress. have a thread here on this forum asking for help.
you can, but I am not sure it is working 100%
as an FYI I was trying to do a /root as btrfs , so that could be my issue as well
It depends on the hardware, but no, I wasn’t suggesting that mirroring
was always a simple thing. But with two drives, if the purpose is to
reduce risk, then spreading data across multiple drives doesn’t do that -
it increases the risk of some loss, while distributing the risk of loss
across multiple devices.
Mirroring, OTOH, actually does reduce risk.
> I have been trying to do a soft RAID-1 as System drive for over a week,
> and it still in progress. have a thread here on this forum asking for
> help.
> you can, but I am not sure it is working 100%
>
> as an FYI I was trying to do a /root as btrfs , so that could be my
> issue as well
In theory, it shouldn’t matter what the filesystem is, but again, depends
on whether you’re using software RAID, fake RAID, or real RAID.
> I have been trying to do a soft RAID-1 as System drive for over a week,
> and it still in progress. have a thread here on this forum asking for
> help.
12.3 install has problems with raid.
> as an FYI I was trying to do a /root as btrfs , so that could be my
> issue as well
Yes, I read that btrfs on raid is beta or broken or something.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-10-21 20:16, hextejas wrote:
>
> OpenSUSE 12.3
> KDE 4.10.5
>
> As a result of my HDD crashed, I bought a replacement drive.
> 1 TB SATA and they were so cheap that I bought two of them.
>
> So, I had always heard that it was a good idea to separate the operating
> system from the data and this was a good opportunity to try it.
Oh, well…
It mostly means use two separate partitions, not necesarily 2 disks.
I spread on four
For instance: root on one, usr on another, home another, swap another.
> Is that a fairly easy thing to do, IE separate everything associated
> with my or other user IDs on to a 2nd drive and leave openSUSE
> segregated on his own, 1-TB Drive. ? I know it sounds like maximum
> overkill but disk was cheap.
>
> Probably not worth it.
I would simply use one disk for full backup of the other.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
