[chbot] Urgent help with disk partitioning

[Robin Gilks]

Just as an aside, I forgot to mention the higher levels of my disk
management.

My latest PC for example uses 3x4T disks in software raid5 with one 4T
drive spare. On top of that I have a single Volume Group of ~6T  which it
split into multiple Logical volumes with various filesystem types depending
on the number of files in that particular volume - generally ext4 but
volumes that store large video files I prefer jfs as there are likely not
so many files.

Backup strategy is regular 'dar'  (Disk ARchive - like tar but more
recently designed for disks, does compression and encryption as you'd
expect)  use which allows simple inclusion and exclusions of the whole
directory tree. The backup is copied to another PC or USB disk, keeping the
last 2-3 resident, the catalog has a copy on the originating PC so it's
simple to find where an accidentally deleted file is!

I think I've done quite well on the last PC with 2 disks replaced in its 10
year life and no data loss.

Cheers




On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 7:01 AM Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Rather than remember all the quirks and magic incantations, I prefer to
> use Clonezilla or similar.
> Magic happens...
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 12:47 AM Volker Kuhlmann <list57 at top.geek.nz>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu 20 Jul 2023 23:54:03 NZST +1200, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>
>> > Mostly an issue of not remembering how I built it 10 years ago but also
>> > that the ST3000DM001 is no longer available and the ST3000DM008
>> replacement
>> > has a small number of sectors (by a very small margin)
>>
>> Pair it with a ST4000DM and use the extra space for another non-RAID
>> partition. Or shrink the filesystem, then the RAID size (I think there
>> was an option for that) and don't get your numbers wrong.
>>
>> Volker
>>
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