Partitioning a back up drive--request for comments.
- From: pureheart@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:58 -0700 (PDT)
Okay, I finally have my back-up drive. An Iomega 150 GB drive. I
plugged in the firewire cable and it "just worked". (Mandriva 2007).
It appears to be formatted vfat.
Is there any reason why I should not reformat it (at least most of it)
ext2/3?
Is there any reason I should *not* use ext3 over 2? This drive will
not be routinely attached to the system, just weekly for backup
purposes.
I was thinking of two 65-70GB linux partitions and maybe 10-20 vfat in
case I wanted to do any xfers for those kind of machines.
Is there any reason to have more than one partition for my purposes?
Then I have to decide if I'm going to use 'tar' or 'rsync'. I've got
plenty of room and compression does not seem to be critical, plus the
firewire connection seems to have all the speed I'd need.
I have about 7GB total if I back up '/' (3.4GB) too.
About the same on my windows partition...don't have a clue what the
kids have in there and would not really care if it got blown away.
I'm going to hold off reformatting for about 2-3 days until I read any
comments that appear here.
Thanks in advance...
Pureheart
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