Please advise on how to partition my drives

[fdbryant3]

I am setting up an HDA with two 2TB drives (which of course means I have 3.6TB available to me). I'd appreciate any advice I could get on partitioning the drives. I am thinking about creating a 300GB partition (one for root and landing zone, the other - I don't know balance? scratch area outside of the the storage pool?) and putting the remaining 3TB in a storage pool.

My home network currently consists of 2 laptops each with a 300GB drive. These will be drives that are regularly backed up with periodic system images and as well as having the profiles synced and duplicated (depending on how important the files are). I also have a media center PC with 100GB drive on it (but nothing that needs to be backed up) and another laptop with two 100GB drives that is used as a standing workstation. I also have a couple Tivo's I may use for media extension.

Should I go with my proposed partition setup or just create a root/landing zone partition (and what size) and throw the rest in the storage pool or is there some other configuration I should consider (now that I think about it there is a 100GB drive I might be able to fit in there - perhaps as root and/lz).

Anyway - any thoughts would be appreciated.

[apastor]

Sorry for the late reply.

This is what I have and did, and it runs awesome at home here.

My HDA has 2 1TB drives.
Drive 1: is the OS and my data
Drive 2: Is the backup drive

I installed fedora without the LVM partioning, and used the ext4 partition.
My drive one has also a 2GB swap file, but next time I install Amahi, I will not use such a large swap file. My box has been runnin for 109 days, and my swap file is only at 200MB.

Also next time I plan on using the express CD, so less ram will be needed.

Then every few days I run a rsync command to backup my files on /var/hda/files, and another command to backup my home directories.

My goal is to get the backup part automated, but havent had time to do that yet. Putting rsync in cron does not work after about week or two.

I had the same problem in ubuntu and fedora where rsync and cp commands do not work well in cronjobs.

Good luck, let me know what you did.