[GRASS-user] Tips for setting up an new FOSS-GEO-linux-box

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 15:08 +0100, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
> I know, I know... it's off the lists topic! But I need some help.
> Probably I am going to "migrate" soon all of my stuff in a new
> linux-box. So I would like to collect best practice tips concerning the
> following:
> 
> 
> OS:
> OK, I think I shouldn't ask about which OS since foss runs on everything
> (right?). But are I am curious to know if there are any advantages using
> Debian instead of Ubuntu for example?
> 
> 
> Filesystems:
> Which filesystem is better(=safer/faster) for data storage? Is there any
> important advantage to choose XFS for example rather than ext3?
> 
> 
> Partitions:
> Do you keep your geo-data in a separate partition? I suppose yes. Have
> you split further your partition based on other criteria, always related
> with "working with geospatial data"?
> 
> Do you keep all of your source code in a separate partition maybe?
> 
> 
> Organisation:
> GRASS takes care to organise the data inside the GIS data-base and its
> fantastic. But what about the "raw" data? How do you organise them?
> Manually everything? Any tool to be more productive?
> 
> 
> BackUp:
> How often do you backup your data? Do you just copy or do you compress
> as well? What is safer?
> 
> 
> Other:
> Any other important issues when setting-up a new foss-geo-box?
> 
> 
> Thank you, Nikos
> 
> P.S. Maybe we can add a new wiki-page if something useful comes out of
> this thread. Or maybe not... :-)

Dylan, Eric and Markus,
thank you for your precious time to respond.

Since there are already 3 answers then maybe some wiki-page can be
set-up out-of it. I'll try to structure the information a bit and open a
page whenever I find some free-time (possibly this weekend).

Please to all GRASS-users following the list, if you have some spare
time and consider these questions important, participate with your
ideas/tips/hints/tricks.

Kind regards, Nikos