On 4/28/2012 2:15 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 13:52, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Hmm. Will have to remember that, once I get all the crap onto this
>> one, and
>> the "backup" drive empty.
>
> FWIW, if you make two partitions, one for bootable stuff and one for
> data, it's much more efficient. Put Steam apps and vacation pics and
> stuff like that on a non-bootable drive, or you wind up making 2 copies
> of all that, the backup copy and the zip-file copy. (Indeed, exclude
> stuff you can trivially replace, like the steam apps.)
>
>
Well, other than the stuff that I had to install after, because they 
hadn't shipped it yet, the drive was already "single partition". The old 
machine I made a small one, but way too small, and discovered that the 
damn OS wanted to cram everything, including the kitchen sink, into it, 
even after redirecting the documents to my "data" partition on that one. 
I really made a mess of the damn thing, so bad that half the drive was 
unusable (linux I didn't use, and which ones like ext3, or something, on 
an LVM, so even half the damn live CDs won't recognize/remove it, and so on.

Now, I am trying to use, I guess, Samba? to just link the one machine to 
the other, via file hosting, so I don't have to swap out any drives for 
now. Think I may have that one figured,  but I need to use the network 
IP instead of the machine name, then I can dump each drive to the /ghost 
directory I created on the new one, and fish out what I need, then move 
on to the next one. If not, its back to doing it the annoying way. lol

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