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| RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: radar_macgyver on January 23, 2019, 03:43:05 pm ---No partitions necessary. This artificially imposes limits on what you can do, and has no benefit on modern filesystems. When using btrfs, you can instead use subvolumes with quotas so that, for example, you won't end up with a root filesystem with no space left. --- End quote --- I was not aware about the btrfs capabilities. I thought only ZFS can easily to snapshots and thus have "time back" features. Will read about btrfs. Thank you. About the mirroring, that will come later. I couldn't afford another 8TB for the moment. The one I bought is pro-sumer/small-business grade, so there is a big chance it won't let me down. Until then, I will just avoid storing on it any valuable data, personal photos and projects. For that kind of things I have a RAID5 NAS, very slow (about 10MB/s at most), but very reliable. For now, the NAS is filled with lots of junk data that will be moved to the 8TB, and from now on, I'll keep the NAS only for personal data. |
| RoGeorge:
@HoracioDos The 8TB is for storage only. The OS will stay on a SSD. I won't use Windows in the future. This is for sure. Even if it would to temporarily need a Windows machine, most probably it will be a VM, or a temporary install on another old external drive. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: stj on January 23, 2019, 03:31:15 pm ---long term computer users learn to keep stuff they want/need in specific named folders. it makes things a hell of a lot faster for backups or upgrades. of course Linux helps by having a "home" root-folder. unlike winshit that scatters everybody's stuff all over the damned place. my documents? my files? everybody's files???? what satanist came up with that storage plan??? --- End quote --- In the most popular Unix of the 1980s, Microsoft's(!) Xenix, the user foo's home directory was /users/foo. I believe with Win10 Microsoft has gone full circle and, via a tortuous route, returned to putting much (but far from all) of a user's stuff in /users/foo. I guess the Windows registry is still the horror story containing whatever anybody wants to put in it this year. |
| HoracioDos:
--- Quote from: RoGeorge on January 23, 2019, 04:14:11 pm ---@HoracioDos The 8TB is for storage only. The OS will stay on a SSD. --- End quote --- Upss I'm sorry I missed that! Do you already have a partition for personal data on the SSD? |
| rdl:
I got sick and tired of NTFS years ago. More trouble than it's worth. Ran into far too many instances where I couldn't do something because of convoluted permissions. Now use it only on a small boot drive for the OS only and keep everything else on other drives with FAT 32 or XF 64 or on the NAS with ZFS |
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