I'm a new GNU/Linux user. I've recently received a desktop with lots of disk space and I've been thinking about how to use it effectively. It will contain lots of multimedia files, and later I want to set up mail & web servers on it, primarily for edification rather than production, so these are my "constraints" while I planned the scheme. Any comments on whether I'll regret doing the following would be appreciated since I'm led to believe that the encryption phase of big disks can take a very long time if you do it properly (so I'd rather minimise passes due to stupidity :p).
I have two 80GB disks, which will hold my "system" files. I have two 500GB disks which will be my home drive. I plan to mirror both sets of disks using RAID1. My mirrored 80GB disks will contain the following, the format of my examples is mount_point (size) [options] /boot (1 GB) [unencrypted, RAID1] / (5 GB) [encrypted, RAID1] /var (20 GB) [encrypted, RAID1] /tmp (500 MB) [encrypted, RAID1] /usr (rest of space) [encrypted, RAID1] swap (4 GB) [encrypted] (I have 4 GB of RAM) My mirrored 500GB with contain the following, /home (500GB) [encrypted, RAID1] Do you think this is a silly/decent scheme? Am I being naive about anything? Your comments much appreciated. Thanks a lot for your time, -- Charlie Turner "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik9pgwlte4ckyxvtgdjmcv95umj3qzfby=hh...@mail.gmail.com