Look for recommendations on how to proceed on new install

[mylo]

Hi all,

my siduction install got messed up due to the more and more complicate getting handling on the nvidia stuff.
May be I made administrative faults. I could not get my installation back to init 5, hints in the forum did not bring success.

Other help was not avail.

So I decided to make a new install and have some questions, looking for recommendations.

1) I plan to set up root part on btrfs. Is this file system from today's point of view suitable to bear and run a root part?

2) I have two identical HDD's and plan to switch the OS part from sda to sdb. What I do have to obey when switching the boot to an other hard disk?

Thanks for contributing your experiences.

[timc]

On btrfs, all I can say is that I have been running my Siduction root on it since last October, with no major problems. I recommend it, but I am just a lowly end user.

Also, I have my two internal SATA-III drives in a btrfs RAID-0 configuration. I get great performance.

Tim

[mylo]

Hi timc,  

as I also am an end user your experienece is very worthful to me. Thanks for sharing!

[dibl]

1) I plan to set up root part on btrfs. Is this file system from today's point of view suitable to bear and run a root part?

2) I have two identical HDD's and plan to switch the OS part from sda to sdb. What I do have to obey when switching the boot to an other hard disk?

Thanks for contributing your experiences.

1) I have been running a 2-hdd btrfs filesystem for my data for almost 3 years now. Although no one will dare say "stable", it seems stable to me.  But I run my OS on ext4 -- I don't see many benefits from btrfs for the OS partition -- maybe snapshots, but that's all.

2) If you mean to move all of the OS, including /boot, to a partition on the second hdd, then all you need to do is to let grub install to the mbr of that second hdd and that's where you will boot from.  (Maybe you will need to adapt the BIOS boot sequence to list the second hdd on top of the list.)

[mylo]

Thanks dibk, I will go for ext4 then. Do I have to deactivate, remove or uninstall any boot-stuff from the first disk (siduction is the only OS) then?

[dibl]

You should not have to do anything to the old OS installation or disk. Just make sure that the BIOS is trying to boot the second (new) installation, and that you installed grub on that mbr.

[mylo]

Ok dibl, thanks I will do so.