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From: Arthur Machlas on 23 Jun 2010 11:30
Greetings,

I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB
after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home"
and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for
two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage
device for movies, videos and music I don't like. One laptop is
Windows, one is Debian Squeeze.

I'd like a few partitions on it...
1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
three "snapshots"
2) ext4 encrypted for my /home/arthur/documents folder as backup
3) ntfs? encrypted for girlfriends "my documents/documents" folder.
4) 700GB for backups of pictures from both Debian and XP.. filesystem ... ntfs?
5) 700GB for movies, which would be served (via Debian) to a ps3, not
backups, primary storage. Ntfs?

Thoughts are that unison might be appropriate here, also LVM for
resizing if needed... But I'm looking for opinions, problems with
plan, better suggestions or just links to good articles on the
subject.

Many thanks,
Arthur


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From: Ron Johnson on 23 Jun 2010 14:50
On 06/23/2010 10:22 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB
> after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home"
> and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for
> two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage
> device for movies, videos and music I don't like. One laptop is
> Windows, one is Debian Squeeze.
>
> I'd like a few partitions on it...
> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
> three "snapshots"
> 2) ext4 encrypted for my /home/arthur/documents folder as backup

Regarding this, I'd use encfs to do the encryption. Much simpler
that way.

> 3) ntfs? encrypted for girlfriends "my documents/documents" folder.
> 4) 700GB for backups of pictures from both Debian and XP.. filesystem ... ntfs?
> 5) 700GB for movies, which would be served (via Debian) to a ps3, not
> backups, primary storage. Ntfs?
>
> Thoughts are that unison might be appropriate here, also LVM for
> resizing if needed... But I'm looking for opinions, problems with
> plan, better suggestions or just links to good articles on the
> subject.
>

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From: Andrei Popescu on 27 Jun 2010 13:10
On Mi, 23 iun 10, 10:22:29, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB
> after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home"
> and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for
> two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage
> device for movies, videos and music I don't like. One laptop is
> Windows, one is Debian Squeeze.
>
> I'd like a few partitions on it...
> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
> three "snapshots"

Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for
"regular" operations.

> 2) ext4 encrypted for my /home/arthur/documents folder as backup
> 3) ntfs? encrypted for girlfriends "my documents/documents" folder.
> 4) 700GB for backups of pictures from both Debian and XP.. filesystem ... ntfs?
> 5) 700GB for movies, which would be served (via Debian) to a ps3, not
> backups, primary storage. Ntfs?

You only need ntfs if you expect the drive to be *directly* connected to
a Windows computer or some other device that doesn't understand extX
filesystems. If the drive will only be connected to a Debian machine and
the partitions accessed via samba the Windows computers doesn't access
the filesystem.

Regards,
Andrei
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From: Arthur Machlas on 28 Jun 2010 14:40
>> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
>> three "snapshots"
>
> Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for
> "regular" operations.
>

Ext2 because who needs journaling? It will have three, maybe four
files on it, each about 10GB. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
think anything else out there is as fast as ext2, when it comes to
writing large files.

>> 2) ext4 encrypted for my /home/arthur/documents folder as backup

Thanks for tips about encfs.

>> 3) ntfs? encrypted for girlfriends "my documents/documents" folder.
>> 4) 700GB for backups of pictures from both Debian and XP.. filesystem ... ntfs?
>> 5) 700GB for movies, which would be served (via Debian) to a ps3, not
>> backups, primary storage. Ntfs?
>
> You only need ntfs if you expect the drive to be *directly* connected to
> a Windows computer or some other device that doesn't understand extX
> filesystems. If the drive will only be connected to a Debian machine and
> the partitions accessed via samba the Windows computers doesn't access
> the filesystem.

Appreciate the feedback,

Best,
AM
> Regards,
> Andrei
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From: Andrei Popescu on 28 Jun 2010 15:30
On Lu, 28 iun 10, 13:38:47, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> >> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
> >> three "snapshots"
> >
> > Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for
> > "regular" operations.
> >
>
> Ext2 because who needs journaling? It will have three, maybe four
> files on it, each about 10GB. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
> think anything else out there is as fast as ext2, when it comes to
> writing large files.

AFAIK ext4 and xfs are optimized for large files...

Regards,
Andrei
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