[SLUG] Backup

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> On 28 Oct 2006, at 10:30, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>
>
>> One rule was, partition your hard drive into partitions the same
>> size
>> as your backup medium (DVD in this case, 4.7Gb), so I did that.
>
> It wouldn't be much fun chopping up 1TB of disc into 600MB partitions
> !

Well no, but nor would it be fun backing it up onto DVD, you'd have
larger media for that, so the partitions would be larger.

>> Now I've 15 partitions and it turns out that's the most I can have.
>> So
>> while I might have a 150Gb drive, I'm only using half of it.
>
> Personally, for a 150GB drive, I wouldn't partition it at all. Well,
> I would have a swap partition rather than use a swap file, but
> however you chop it up, chances are you are gonna end up with spare
> space where you don't need it, and a full partition where you do.

Aye, well that's how most people seem to do it, but I was trying to do
it by the book, as it were. I think, though, the rule I'm trying to
follow is more for servers than for personal setups.

J