Re: file systems

No RAID because the drives are different sizes ... main drive is 160GB ...
2nd is 80GB ... 3rd is 60GB :) ... to be honest the reason the data drives
were set to ext2 initially was that I was dual-booting my main system and
ext2 can be mounted in windows quite easily whereas ext3 cannot. Now that
it's a windows-free system (at least until Spore comes out this fall ...
then we'll see how quickly Cedega adds it :) ) I could switch them to ext3
but so far I've just been too lazy :) LVM has me intrigued though I'm
curious, what happens if a HDD dies in an LVM system? Wouldn't I have no
idea what files from what supposed directories are even on the drive?

On 8/8/06, Steven Kurylo <sk@infinitepigeons.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/8/06, Kurtis Peterson <kleedrac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My main system had 3 HDDs (one just bit the dust last week :( ) ... the
> main
> > drive is / which includes the /home ... the data drive is mounted to
> > /home/kleedrac/data1 and /home/kleedrac/data2 ... they mostly just sit
> there
> > for downloads ... all software/games/whatever is installed to the ext3
> drive
> > ... so essentially all that's on the data drives is movies, random
> > divx/xvid, music, books and disc images ... and for that ext2 is fine :)
>
> Well if I was downloading a 2 gig file and lost power during the
> download, I really wouldn't want the last chunk of the file to be
> corrupt. It makes it harder to resume the download. So I'd still
> move the ext3 :-)
>
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> Steven Kurylo
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Received on Tue Aug 8 11:54:32 2006