Partitioning scheme?

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Hi all,

I’m going to be replacing an old hard drive next weekend (install drive-150GB), as I’m always filling it up;), with a 2TB hard drive.

I already have a 1TB drive, mainly used for my music collection. What I’m trying to do is:

  1. Transfer my music collection etc to the 2TB drive
  2. Partition my TB into slices for openSUSE 11.2 to be installed onto.

Question is: what’s the best scheme for a single user running openSUSE?

Any advice always appreciated:)

Thanks!

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When you say you have a music collection that you are going to copy. What file system? Is it going to have it’s own partition? What File system? Do you need to access the music from Windows. Is Windows involved?

IMO swap, root, and home (the defaults) are normally just fine for most users. But you need to answer the above since you seem to have special needs (maybe).

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I have a TB drive added just for Data, but my system drive is a simple 40G drive. That way I don’t have to disturb my Data drive every time I make major changes to my system drive. I’ve configured most programs to dump downloads and music files to the Data drive.

The system drive can be 20G for root partition, with 2G for swap, and the balance can be /home on a separate partition. Although with a 150G system drive you can afford more space for root.

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Hi
Can you run all three drives in the system? How much RAM do you have?

150GB sda
sda1 - 512MB /boot
sda2 - extended
sda5 - 50GB /
sda6 - nGB minus 2x RAM size
sda7 - nGB (2x RAM size)

1TB sdb
sdb1 - RAID1 member (whole drive)

2TB sdc
sdc1 - RAID 1 member ( equal to size created for sdb1)
sdc2 - balance of drive /home

RAID1 device
/md0 - mount as /data

Then all the important stuff can be protected on the RAIDed drives.
Note having RAID still doesn’t negate the need to have an external
backup!!!

Anyway, that should give you something to think about :slight_smile:

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Are you thinking of getting rid of the 1TB drive? If not, why transfer files to the 2TB drive?

Also, if you are going to keep both drives, why not use LVM? You then have much more freedom to manage partitions to meet different, and new, needs - though AFAIK you would need to move the files off the 1TB drive anyway to do this.

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Hi all,

I’m only going to be running openSUSE 11.2.

The 1TB drive is formatted as ext3

I have 8GB of DDR2 RAM

Currently on my 150GB drive, I have a 4GB swap, 200MB boot, root is 20GB with what remains as home.

Thanks for all the great advice!

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IF you can live with 2TB instead of 3TB, you could use a single drive and save some power. If not, add the 1TB drive as a spare partition.

Just remove the 1TB drive, install as normal on the 2TB drive (accept the default, you will get a large /home), then add it back and copy files to the 2TB drive.