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I am about to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release. I had Ubuntu 14.04 and installed emerald, and now I am unable to get the unity nor I am able to access my data. Only option left was to do a clean install again. Thankfully, I do have my data on another laptop. That raised a question how should I do the partitions and data security.

I always partitioned my 500 GB Hard-Disk as below:

  • 500 MB - /boot
  • 50 GB - /
  • 450 GB - /home
  • 4800 MB - swap

Data I kept in /home:

  1. Install applications like sublime-text, hadoop, intelliJ, eclipse, oracle-home manually
  2. Lot of Media stuffs like - Songs, Movies and Wallpapers
  3. Lots of books, documents and office stuff

I also install many applications/libraries using Synaptic

I also keep playing with my distribution and sometimes that leads to broken system and I have to do clean install again. And this might result in data loss.

Therefore, I need to know how to to below:

  1. How should I ideally partition my data
  2. How should I implement data security and backup of /home and softwares installed manually as well as through Synaptic. I do work on development projects and data keep adding on.
Gaurav Dighe
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Your current system partitions looks good enough. However I cannot comment on the space you have allotted for /home. As a quick suggestion, instead of having 450GB in single partition, have that segregated into multiple partitions. So you can have different volumes for your work. With this, your operations become local to that particular volume and the other is not affected.

For backing up, you can use simple dd and create images. Or you can also use rsync!

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/dd.1posix.html

In order to achieve encrypted filesystem, you should have a look on this!

HowTo

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