I have two hard drivers, each one is 160 GB. One thing I can do is make home directory in one disk and all the other directories into the other disk.
The problem of this is it is pretty waste. Installing Ubuntu may never needs 160GB spaces. However, home directory can easily exceed 160GB.
Is there anyway, I can make home directory, say 280GB, and leave 40GB for the system?
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11-03-2008, 11:19 PM
Michael
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On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:05 -0800, Scott Wang wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have two hard drivers, each one is 160 GB. One thing I can do is
> make home directory in one disk and all the other directories into the
> other disk.
>
> The problem of this is it is pretty waste. Installing Ubuntu may never
> needs 160GB spaces. However, home directory can easily exceed 160GB.
>
> Is there anyway, I can make home directory, say 280GB, and leave 40GB
> for the system?
>
> Thank you.
>
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> Scott Wang
> im@scottwang.net
If you're up to it, you can try LVM. You'd need to create an lvm group
for /home/ and then one for everything else. There's a how-to on the
ubuntu wiki pages on doing it with secondary hard drives. Use the
alternate install CD if you're doing a clean install.
-Mike
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11-03-2008, 11:23 PM
Bo Grimes
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:05:49PM -0800, Scott Wang wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have two hard drivers, each one is 160 GB. One thing I can do is make home
> directory in one disk and all the other directories into the other disk.
>
> The problem of this is it is pretty waste. Installing Ubuntu may never needs
> 160GB spaces. However, home directory can easily exceed 160GB.
>
> Is there anyway, I can make home directory, say 280GB, and leave 40GB for
> the system?
Unless you create a RAID, I think you'll have to reply on a solution like
LVM (logical volume manager). While you wait for a more competent,
experienced person to answer you might want to read:
Now you mount /home/media inside /home/user and store your music or
movies there. The advantage is that you have separation of data that
needs backing up and data that does not. Also, you have now sda2 to
use for test installations before upgrading your daily driver.
Although I do not recommend that you configure more than four
partitions to a drive, another good thing to do is to have a separate
/var partition. When there is a hardware failure, breach, or other
problem /var/logs can fill quickly and fill up all available space.
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11-04-2008, 02:26 AM
"David Fox"
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Scott Wang <im@scottwang.net> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have two hard drivers, each one is 160 GB. One thing I can do is make home
> directory in one disk and all the other directories into the other disk.
A simple solution would be to carve out an appropriate amount on the
first (ubuntu) disk and use it for /storage or something, and mount
that partition on boot. Then you can put some files in /storage that
won't conveniently fit in /home or use it like a secondary /home. I've
done that before to put larger files that won't conveniently fit in
/home, or if I am tight on disk space, etc.
Sometimes I move whole directories (such as Pictures) to the secondary
disk and then use a symbolic link so I can still easily access the
directory from my home directory. That has worked well.
And that doesn't involve setting up RAID or LVM, although it might be
a better idea to set something up like that.
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11-04-2008, 03:47 AM
"Anthony M. Rasat"
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>The problem of this is it is pretty >waste. Installing Ubuntu may >never needs 160GB spaces. >However, home directory can >easily exceed 160GB.Is there >anyway, I can make home >directory, say 280GB, and leave >40GB for the system?
I think you may want to use LVM. But:
1) It requires users to fully understand concept of LVM.
2) It may need you backup everything and install from scratch that some thought don't have the time to.
3) It is quiet picky on filesystem choice. Some filesystem can be expanded or shrinked, some just don't have that feature yet.
4) Disaster recovery is quiet work-intensive. You may want to have a regular backup plan.
5) However when you employ LVM, it pays. LVM is a feature that enterprise class servers use to handle storage challenges.
Just my 2 cents.
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11-04-2008, 07:35 AM
Eberhard Roloff
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Anthony M. Rasat wrote:
>> The problem of this is it is pretty >waste. Installing Ubuntu may >never needs 160GB spaces. >However, home directory can >easily exceed 160GB.Is there >anyway, I can make home >directory, say 280GB, and leave >40GB for the system?
>
> I think you may want to use LVM. But:
>
> 1) It requires users to fully understand concept of LVM.
> 2) It may need you backup everything and install from scratch that some thought don't have the time to.
> 3) It is quiet picky on filesystem choice. Some filesystem can be expanded or shrinked, some just don't have that feature yet.
> 4) Disaster recovery is quiet work-intensive. You may want to have a regular backup plan.
> 5) However when you employ LVM, it pays. LVM is a feature that enterprise class servers use to handle storage challenges.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
I would like to emphasize issue No. 2.
Backup, Backup, Backup.
When you are doing it like this, LVM is a very good and flexible solution.
However, your intention is to distribute your data over two single
disks, which are not mirrored ex. in a RAID configuration.
Now if only Disk of two fails, _ALL_ of your data will be gone. This is
similar to RAID 0 in regard to data security.
So Backup, Backup, Backup
Kind regards
Eberhard
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