Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb (I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply enough, how the heck does one back them up economically? Look at the prices of tape streamers that can handle such capacities (hint - second mortgage). A removable disk pack. Slap another one of those in there, mirror the disk... ready :) OK, now start rotating your backups so that you have something to fall back on, and watch your costs rocket. Why rotate backups? Allow me to tell you a short true story. I was working for a company that ran Novell NetWare 3.12 fileservers. In my absence (and without my knowledge) a contractor made some changes to one of the servers. A few weeks later, the server crashed. It turned out that the moron had infected the DOS partition of the server with the ripper virus (my anti-virus NLM could not see a virus there). Result? Slow corruption that went un-noticed until it blatted a crucial sector and knocked out the SYS: volume. Restore from last backup? Not unless I want to put all the corrupted data back. I think a cabinet full of hard drives would soon add up to more than the cost of a tape streamer and tapes. Regards, Ozz.
Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?
What a hard drive. That got my thinking of the old 500mi drive I had to use to build a new system recently. And even the old 40 meg drives I have. And look at what one had to pay for them back then. It wasn't that many years ago I was paying $150 for a 40Mb drive. I upgraded to a (then HUGE) 250Mb drive that cost me over $400. Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb (I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply enough, how the heck does one back them up economically? Look at the prices of tape streamers that can handle such capacities (hint - second mortgage). Regards, Ozz. (Who is really just VERY jealous #;-D)
Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Austin L. Denyer wrote: Of course, the biggest problem with these new big drives (I see that Hitachi are selling 72Gb drives on buy.com for $146, and I've seen 80Gb (I think Maxtor)) is that although one can buy the drives cheaply enough, how the heck does one back them up economically? Look at the prices of tape streamers that can handle such capacities (hint - second mortgage). A removable disk pack. Slap another one of those in there, mirror the disk... ready :) Paul -- I used to be a heathen, but then I saw the Light. Now I'm a pagan! -Anonymous http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] partition plan -- workable?
what a wonderful problem to have :) my suggestion is that u give all the drive to linux and trash all the other stuff. i know u probably feel like u just cant do it but remember...u can On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, you wrote: greeting all. i'm drooling over a new 45G hard drive and plotting how to cut it up. this is my plan at the moment -- wanted to see if anyone saw any dumb ideas here, or is there is something else on the linux side that i should give it's own partition. i'm trying to make it easy to install / upgrade the OS without splatting all my installed programs. i may not have my hda* things right... seems like i read it skips a number someplace if you have lots of partitions? am i on track there? so far my idea is thus (partitions sizes are estimates naturally): hda1 - fat16 - 1G hda2 - fat32 - 4G Win98 hda3 - NTFS - 4G WinNT 4.0 hda4 - fat32 - 6G hda5 - fat16 - 1G Win98/NT swap files hda6 - 5G /home hda7 - 500M /var hda8 - 5G / hda9 - 5G /usr hda10 - 5G /usr/local hda11 - 5G future OS - i'd like to try out this BeOS thing. will it install this far "back" on a drive?? hda12 - whatever - fat32 - to be used repartitioned as needed. thank you for comments happy monday *groan* Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
