I recently bought a 2 TB WD USB hard drive. I want to back up the contents of my Windows and Ubuntu partitions regularly.
Also, in addition i want to store some videos, songs and un-related stuff.
What is the partition scheme you would suggest that could protect my data in case of a crash?
I use ubuntu primarily. I do use windows may be 5 days a month to do random stuff.
Thanks for your time.
I suggest to create 4 partitions on the disk - you can use GParted to do it.
Partition 1 - format : ntfs - label : Data - size : 500 GB (for personal things)
Partition 2 - format : ntfs - label : Media - size : 500 GB (for music and videos)
Partition 3 - format : ntfs - label : Rescue - size : 500 GB (for file and system backups)
Partition 4 - format : ntfs - label : System - size : 500 GB (for system related stuff e.g. ISO files)
The size of the partitions should be chosen according your needs ... 500GB is just an example ...
I selected ntfs file system because you can access everything from within Ubuntu and Windows.
