I read what is in the LL manual, but still a little unclear. What I want to do:
1) Boot to a small primary hard drive (80Gb) as I do now.
2) Add a 500 Gb hard drive as a secondary drive. This drive would be used as a back-up of the primary and additional storage for music and some video editing clips, etc.
I am using SystemBack (I also have the DejaDup that comes on 2.2) and I would want to set a partition on my secondary drive to the same size as my primary drive and then the remaining space could be used as storage. I am not sure about Systemback, but some similar software like Clonezilla it's difficult to copy your system to a smaller drive partition than your system drive (even if you are only using part of your system drive capacity). I figured if I make the partition on the second drive equal to the 80Gb drive, then I could not only copy to that, but copy back to the primary in the event of problems.
So, I plan on using Gparted to set the partition sizes on the secondary (80Gb and ~ 420 Gb). Questions:
1) Do I have to format that drive before partitioning, if so what format, how? Right now I think Windows 10 preview is on there, should I "nuke" that first?
2) When I copy my primary drive, I expect it will automatically re-create the existing partitions incl. swap, etc. in that 80Gb partition on the secondary drive?
Does this make sense, or is there a better way to do this? I guess another option would be to copy my primary drive to a usb drive, and then just use the whole 500Gb drive for storage? Pretty sure I could back it all up on a 32Gb usb drive.
Two more questions:
I will not be using the secondary drive all the time, and it seems like a waste of energy to power it up all the time and increase wear when I am not using it.
1) Is there a way other than opening the computer case and disconnecting the power connector to not power-up each time. Has anyone ever seen a switch to do this?
2) I am tempted to install a power-up switch on the outside of my case to allow this, anyone ever done this?
Chris
1) Boot to a small primary hard drive (80Gb) as I do now.
2) Add a 500 Gb hard drive as a secondary drive. This drive would be used as a back-up of the primary and additional storage for music and some video editing clips, etc.
I am using SystemBack (I also have the DejaDup that comes on 2.2) and I would want to set a partition on my secondary drive to the same size as my primary drive and then the remaining space could be used as storage. I am not sure about Systemback, but some similar software like Clonezilla it's difficult to copy your system to a smaller drive partition than your system drive (even if you are only using part of your system drive capacity). I figured if I make the partition on the second drive equal to the 80Gb drive, then I could not only copy to that, but copy back to the primary in the event of problems.
So, I plan on using Gparted to set the partition sizes on the secondary (80Gb and ~ 420 Gb). Questions:
1) Do I have to format that drive before partitioning, if so what format, how? Right now I think Windows 10 preview is on there, should I "nuke" that first?
2) When I copy my primary drive, I expect it will automatically re-create the existing partitions incl. swap, etc. in that 80Gb partition on the secondary drive?
Does this make sense, or is there a better way to do this? I guess another option would be to copy my primary drive to a usb drive, and then just use the whole 500Gb drive for storage? Pretty sure I could back it all up on a 32Gb usb drive.
Two more questions:
I will not be using the secondary drive all the time, and it seems like a waste of energy to power it up all the time and increase wear when I am not using it.
1) Is there a way other than opening the computer case and disconnecting the power connector to not power-up each time. Has anyone ever seen a switch to do this?
2) I am tempted to install a power-up switch on the outside of my case to allow this, anyone ever done this?
Chris