- Apr 13, 2014
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Hey,
So recently I had a USB Hard Drive. It was a Toshiba USB 3.0 1TB with a Linux Mint install. I had 3 partitions. At the front of the disk, I had a 4GB swap partition, and a 496GB ext4 for the OS. Then at the back of the disk, it had a FAT32 partition with the remaining 500GB of storage. However, it recently broke somehow, and I had no Linux Mint install. It was really neat having a portable hard drive that seemed like a 500GB hard drive, but had a secret Linux Mint install that I could use on any computer with, of course, permission. But recently, in my house I found 4 USB 3.0 Flash Drives with 16GB of storage each, and they were still good and working. I'm still somewhat of a beginner of Linux, but I haven't used it in a while, so I don't remember everything exactly. However, I think there was a partition format I could install Mint on that was essentially RAID 0. Even if there wasn't, you could still create ext4 partitions on multiple hard drives, but it would take some tweaking to get it to act like a RAID 0. I wanted to know if, until I can afford another Toshiba, if I could install Linux Mint in a way where one of my flash drives would have the bootloader, and the bootloader and my Mint system would utilize all 4 flash drives in something like a RAID 0 for faster speeds and storage. I can deal with 64GBs of storage, I honestly didn't even approach using 32GBs on my original Toshiba. And I'm hoping that the flash drives in a RAID 0 like setup will get about equivalent speed to the Toshiba if not better. After all, the flash drives are USB 3.0. I don't know, they could even be USB 3.1, but most systems including mine don't have USB 3.0 yet. Is there anyway I could setup a Linux Mint install like that?
Thanks,
DontEvenAskMeMyUsername
So recently I had a USB Hard Drive. It was a Toshiba USB 3.0 1TB with a Linux Mint install. I had 3 partitions. At the front of the disk, I had a 4GB swap partition, and a 496GB ext4 for the OS. Then at the back of the disk, it had a FAT32 partition with the remaining 500GB of storage. However, it recently broke somehow, and I had no Linux Mint install. It was really neat having a portable hard drive that seemed like a 500GB hard drive, but had a secret Linux Mint install that I could use on any computer with, of course, permission. But recently, in my house I found 4 USB 3.0 Flash Drives with 16GB of storage each, and they were still good and working. I'm still somewhat of a beginner of Linux, but I haven't used it in a while, so I don't remember everything exactly. However, I think there was a partition format I could install Mint on that was essentially RAID 0. Even if there wasn't, you could still create ext4 partitions on multiple hard drives, but it would take some tweaking to get it to act like a RAID 0. I wanted to know if, until I can afford another Toshiba, if I could install Linux Mint in a way where one of my flash drives would have the bootloader, and the bootloader and my Mint system would utilize all 4 flash drives in something like a RAID 0 for faster speeds and storage. I can deal with 64GBs of storage, I honestly didn't even approach using 32GBs on my original Toshiba. And I'm hoping that the flash drives in a RAID 0 like setup will get about equivalent speed to the Toshiba if not better. After all, the flash drives are USB 3.0. I don't know, they could even be USB 3.1, but most systems including mine don't have USB 3.0 yet. Is there anyway I could setup a Linux Mint install like that?
Thanks,
DontEvenAskMeMyUsername
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