22 Mar
2006
22 Mar
'06
6:41 a.m.
If I may be so bold as to add a question :
what filesystem should the recording disk use ?
I hear that a journaled filesystem (ext3, xfs, reiserfs), while being
safer, would be slower than - say - ext2.
My recording hard drive (80 Go) is currently using FAT32 for
compatibility, but I wonder if this is a very good choice regarding
I/O performances ?
Regards.
On 3/22/06, Jan Depner <eviltwin69(a)cableone.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 01:03 -0600, Josh Lawrence
wrote:
Hello all,
I'm about to build a machine strictly for recording audio. I've
looked around the web for suggestions on how to partition the disks,
and have found a lot of useful information. At the risk of beating a
dead horse, I would like to get some suggestions from this list as to
how you partition your disks.
I try to keep things as simple as possible. Normally I partition
the OS drive with 2GB swap, 100MB /boot, and the rest in the /
partition. Make one partition for the second drive. Always record to
the second drive. You can move audio data from the second drive to the
OS drive after recording. You don't want to be recording to the OS
drive.
A little background - recording will be simple,
nothing major, and
mostly for my own enjoyment. It is doubtful that any of it will see
the light of day. Mastering will be minimal. The machine will have
two hard disks, so I will need to spread out the work between the two.
Finally, I'll be running Ubuntu. Not sure what audio interface yet,
though.
Ardour for recording, JAMin for mastering - of course I may be a bit
biased ;-)
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