Fresh install Kubuntu 13.10: how best to partition the HD for optimal, smooth Kontakt & Akonadi

[Basil Chupin]

On 27/10/13 17:07, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday, October 27, 2013 12:01:19 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
>> Absolutely spot on. Which is why I always have 2 HDDs in the computer
>> and the second HDD contains the Data partition containing the folders
>> which are symlinked from /home which is on the first HDD.
> Fine, but effectively if your 'data' HDD goes down...  I assume you have backup
> elsewhere.   Your symlink method does nothing for a failure over a one HD
> system, methinks.   Either one can break and if so, you'd better have a backup
> elsewhere.
>
> Besides nightly of backup darn near everything to a DIFFerent computer (and
> vice versa) ,  I use a 1 TB HD in a USB adapter to backup several systems
> periodically...  as in a couple of times a month.
>
> And moving that USB HD to another location (should I want to do so) is nothing
> more than a slight tug out of its adapter....   rather than dismantling the
> drives from a computer.

I think that you missed a few things.....

I did state that I backed up my most important data - /.mozilla and 
/.thunderbird - to an USB memory flash while the complete /home was 
backed up when I remembered to an external HDD (a Seagate 2TB to be 
precise).

If I lose the "main" HDD I still have most of my /home symlinked to the 
second HDD. And if I lose the second HDD where things are symlnked to I 
still have main system intact on the first, "main" HDD.

If I lose BOTH HDDs then I still have the USB flash with the almost 
current FF and TB data files as well as a copy of a slightly outdated 
compete /home on the external HDD.

Re the comment about "dismantling the drives from a computer" perhaps 
you misunderstood what I meant by mobile racks. With a mobile rack the 
HDD sits in a removable cradle which then is inserted in a rack which is 
fixed in the 5 1/4 slot in the computer. To remove the HDD all one has 
to do is to pull out the cradle with the HDD from the rack and store it 
away; and to replace it one simply pushes the he cradle back into the 
rack. Either operation takes less than 5 seconds.

A picture of what I am talking about is here:

http://www.computeronline.com.au/products.php?C_ID=3&S_ID=86&PROD=9963

BC

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