>>> I'm getting a new pc with a 250G HDD. > >>> I thought I'd just have software installed on the "C" drive, and everything >>> else on the "D" drive. > > Personally, I have two hard drives(dual 200GB SATA's I bought years > ago)-- the C:\ drive I use for system and anything I can lose, and if > something's really important and I don't want to lose it, I put it on > D:\(seperate physical drive). I tried mirror'd raid(hardware and > software) before, but it was too slow for my tastes. Having two > physical drives lets you backup from one to the other as well, along > with your less frequent network/tape/DVD backup. I now have a slick > rsync setup to sync changed files to a small linux box I built for > that purpose(and the super-important stuff to an off-site server via > the internet).
That would be even better, but the OP said one drive. > >> Which is, of course, the way it ought to be. Stupid MSFT never cared >> about segregating software and data, burying user data and settings in >> the bowels of the C drive. (rant note: Linux, by design, keeps these >> things separate, which is one reason I took to it so comfortably.) > > Most Linux distribs, and even many Linux 'gurus' I've talked to in > recent years don't bother with partitioning the way we did in the > past. No seperate /, /boot, /var, /home/, /usr/, and swap. Most say > just / and swap. I must disagree - you gotta have /home on a separate partition. That way you can mess with the rest of the box and not touch /home. If your box is still running RH 6 and you haven't reinstalled in 7 years, then, yeah, you could live that way, but.... <s> I don't do the /var, /usr, etc. partitions because it gets too hard to guess how big each needs to be. Although FC's lvm makes resizing easier, well, just not my personality. > >> I move mysql and such to a /home/data dir.) > > But mysql data is constantly accessed data, spool, and log files, > which would typically be in the /var partition by general Linux > partitioning rules(or at least those of 2.0 kernel when I last > bothered)... Yeah, I know. You point them all to the same place, basically replacing /var with /home/data. A little bit easier, but this is personal preference. The bottom line, for me, is to keep data on a separate partition. On a separate drive, even better. A separate box (file server??? <s>) even better... It does NOT belong in c:/documents and settings and all sorts of other garbage/. <s> Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
