From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B85C138C9D for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA239E0ADD; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f45.google.com (mail-qg0-f45.google.com [209.85.192.45]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0751E0A64 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qgej70 with SMTP id j70so192249qge.2 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:39:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=m8FNWVaIQz7vd8EQJsP6651ayCsPec5qNoXEbpEpO90=; b=HVqntSCjr6UVkwfSlO/RrurAuA3QnAR6y5/F+d7p3xoPOLh2fJilk0gFM1wATS4RxB C5xNkcPRTYzmDD9gD1hareUP7k+khmwcRgK5IgRqsWXdApZV2aiz/A7YyIJSokmkdU0K fdz0JPAmWhJVb7l2BFT07j5iAI0DefHwdAPeVZ9ePbELalm73u1KEsNNbAujNTh5yLFG 0BOBf4pE7m6YS3CFqK3+nnUp9Gu5nYlZKSMtqBHiu6xQ4tFjG7w9RnWumWMnc0XaGbjv TVFpAo3ZD6b0a3Nfu4KbAOak1NCRcDDIGeDwTWvY71Xgv9MYnMVpMbmXq5MnsvOaBL3E R1jg== X-Received: by 10.140.104.1 with SMTP id z1mr6578475qge.76.1430120511760; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-100.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z198sm9491381qhd.44.2015.04.27.00.41.50 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:41:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <553DE83D.7010602@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:41:49 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 60443b50-5043-4349-a4f3-242af79b10c2 X-Archives-Hash: bb044fc1be9c6ee1c23f262d8bfbb6d5 Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just add that which would double my space. I use LVM by the way. I may try BTFS, (sp?). Either way, adding a drive shouldn't be to much of a problem.=20 On one hand, adding a drive would double my space. It would also spread out my stuff in the event a drive failed. On the other hand, one more drive to have spinning that could fail too. These large drives makes me wonder sometimes.=20 What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing?=20 Dale :-) :-)=20 P. S. Filesystem Size Used Avail =20 Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 2.7T 1.8T 945G 66% /home