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Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box?

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On 20/05/12 14:57, Steve wrote:
> I'm thinking of having a new PC custom built and then having Kubuntu
> 12.04 installed on the hard drive.
>
> Shopping around, it seems like 1 TB hard drives are the norm.
>
> I would also like to install a virtual machine on this new PC to run
> Windows for the occasional use where I just can't get something on
> Linux ( for example, streaming Netflix ).    I would also like to be
> able to experiment with the occasional "new" linux distro, without
> jeopardizing my main Kubuntu install or VM set up.
>
> I know I should ask the PC builder to give me a swap partition ( how
> much on a TB hard drive? ).
>
> Any other advice on how to lay the partitions out?
>
> A friend at work suggested multiple hard drives, he said they could be
> set up so that I wouldn't have to dual boot.    Is there any values in
> this?
>
> Thanks much in advance for any tips
>
> Steve

If you want to improve the speed, get 2 hard drives and set them up with 
Linux raid.  Divide each disk into three - 1GB for boots, 1/2 ram size 
for swap, and the rest.  Make a raid1 pair out of the two 1GB partitions 
and use it for /boot.  Use the two swap partitions (with equal 
priorities), and put the rest as a raid10,far2 layout.  You probably 
want that to be a partitionable raid array, so that you can make one 
partition for /, and another for /home (or if you prefer, make it into 
an LVM physical volume - that's what I usually do).

Don't try to get the PC builder to do this - do it yourself.  It is so 
easy these days (assuming you have another PC with internet access to 
"how-tos" during the process) that anyone can do it - except system 
builders.

Don't bother leaving space for "other distros".  Just make sure your 
machine has plenty of ram, and you can run other distros from live CDs.

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Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2012-05-20 05:57 -0700
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-05-20 13:06 +0000
    Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-20 19:02 +0100
      Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-05-20 23:19 +0200
        Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2012-05-22 04:28 +0000
          Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-05-22 09:40 +0200
        Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Stan Bischof <stan@worldbadminton.com> - 2012-06-01 17:22 +0000
          Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-06-03 19:12 +0200
            Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-04 01:01 +0000
              Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-06-04 09:37 +0200
                Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-04 14:46 +0000
                Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-06-05 09:18 +0200
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2012-05-20 08:31 -0500
    Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2012-05-20 13:46 +0000
      Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-20 09:03 -0500
    [OT] Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? James Moe <jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com> - 2012-05-21 12:43 -0700
      Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2012-05-21 16:48 -0500
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? David Brown <david.brown@removethis.hesbynett.no> - 2012-05-20 17:41 +0200
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2012-05-20 17:18 +0000
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-20 18:58 +0100
    Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-05-20 19:53 +0100
  Re: Best Hard Drive Set Up For A New Linux Box? Danno <WhoaBaby@MySecretPlace.org> - 2012-05-31 12:01 -0600

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