How are your partitions organize?

[Fudssa]

Originally posted by: Insane3D
Partioning drives into several partions is soooooooooooooooo 90's. I just use all my drives with one main partion...a bunch of smaller ones is a waste of time.

Damn straight!! Partioning sucks! Just get another drive.

 

[Chaotic42]

18GB SCSI:

7GB-NTFS:Windows XP Pro
3GB -EXT2: Debian /
1GB-Linux Swap

80GB IDE:

32GB-FAT32: Programs
15GB-FAT32: MP3s
4GB-EXT2: Debian /home
4GB-FAT32: Failed Win98SE install

 

[paruhd0x]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

I think you fail too easily.

What's with the personal attack?

I've had several partitions on hardrives just die on me, just got sick of losing my data over and over again.

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

care to back that up?

What's to back up? They have failed on me in the past numerous times. I don't care for using multiple partitions.

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

Huh? A partition is just a sectioned off area of a drive, so to speak.

It has nothing to do with reliability in any way shape or form. That's up to the hard drive itself.

Then I guess I have a bad hardrive... I've been using this 120GB for a long time now, no problems with 1 single partition. Add more... and it likes to lose them.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

I think you fail too easily.

What's with the personal attack?

I've had several partitions on hardrives just die on me, just got sick of losing my data over and over again.

Originally posted by: fivespeed5

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

care to back that up?

What's to back up? They have failed on me in the past numerous times. I don't care for using multiple partitions.

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
120GB IBM Drive

20GB IBM Drive

Partitions fail too easily... I refuse to partition unless I have to.

Huh? A partition is just a sectioned off area of a drive, so to speak.

It has nothing to do with reliability in any way shape or form. That's up to the hard drive itself.

Then I guess I have a bad hardrive... I've been using this 120GB for a long time now, no problems with 1 single partition. Add more... and it likes to lose them.

I mean think about it. Your drive is partitioned.. Why would anything care how big or how many partitions there are? It's all the same to the HDD itself. All that partitioning crap is software level.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
Then I guess I have a bad hardrive... I've been using this 120GB for a long time now, no problems with 1 single partition. Add more... and it likes to lose them.

Something is wrong.

I've had 14 partitions on one drive with no problems at all.

 

[paruhd0x]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
Then I guess I have a bad hardrive... I've been using this 120GB for a long time now, no problems with 1 single partition. Add more... and it likes to lose them.

Something is wrong.

I've had 14 partitions on one drive with no problems at all.

Yeah, I must have been doing something wrong... since my hardrive seems to be fine.

 

[Redviffer]

1 big partition: keeps it nice and simple. Of course, my biggest drives are only 120GB, but I think that I would probably partition into two equal drives anything bigger.

 

[xenos500]

9.1 GB IBM SCSI boot drive
2x 9.1GB IBM SCSI RAID0 programs
40GB IBM music/pictures
40GB IBM Movies
120GB Seagate 55GB Data0 partition for documents, nomenclature, log files, more random crap - 65 GB temp storage for DVI projects
60GB WD Backup drive

 

[fs5]

to all you anti partitioning people, forgive me if I'm wrong but partitioning gives you faster defrags, faster re-install of windows (format c:!), better organization, and MORE space. Am I correct or just hanging on to the old school ways?

 

[lozina]

Partisions? What partisions! I don't need no stinkin' partisions! I don't need a Q: drive.

 

/primary with winblows
/saved drive with all my crap i cant live without

On two drives

 

[GTaudiophile]

Got a lowly Maxtor 40GB 7200rpm/ATA133 drive here:
C:\ (20GBs with Windows and Program Files) - 12GBs Available
D:\ (20GBs with My Documents, music, pictures, etc.) - 8GBs Available

So, you can see I don't even use half of my 40GB drive. When I upgrade, it'll only be to a 60-80GB drive, but it will have to be faster and quieter.

 

[LordJezo]

c:\

 

[Danman]

Well, this is what I got:
6 gigs for OS
10 gigs for Apps
20 gigs for mp3s
15 gigs for other Programs

Then I have a 120giger that I just drop stuff on.

 

[dman]

C: - WinXP and some PROGRAMS
D: - More Programs, ones that are more important to me, and games
E: - MP3's, downloads, misc, etc.

All important stuff backed up across LAN to wifes PC, plus CDR burns periodically.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
to all you anti partitioning people, forgive me if I'm wrong but partitioning gives you faster defrags, faster re-install of windows (format c:!), better organization, and MORE space. Am I correct or just hanging on to the old school ways?

defrag?

hehehehehehe


hehehehe
heh
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[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
to all you anti partitioning people, forgive me if I'm wrong but partitioning gives you faster defrags,

Does NTFS really need to be defragged anyways? No other modern filesystem needs to be.

faster re-install of windows (format c:!),

Do you really need to reinstall windows that much?

better organization,

How exactly?

and MORE space.

Again, how? If anything, you lose space (though trivial in amount).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 491M 48.9M 418M 10% /
/dev/sd0h 26.3G 428M 24.5G 2% /home
/dev/sd0g 1006M 6.0K 956M 0% /tmp
/dev/sd0e 2.0G 920M 993M 48% /usr
/dev/sd0f 2.0G 105M 1.8G 6% /usr/local
/dev/sd0d 1006M 375M 580M 39% /var

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
to all you anti partitioning people, forgive me if I'm wrong but partitioning gives you faster defrags,

Does NTFS really need to be defragged anyways? No other modern filesystem needs to be.

yes

faster re-install of windows (format c:!),

Do you really need to reinstall windows that much?

yes.

better organization,

How exactly?

Most Windows users still deal with that drive letter crap. I'm not even going to touch on organization.

and MORE space.

Again, how? If anything, you lose space (though trivial in amount).

agreed.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
to all you anti partitioning people, forgive me if I'm wrong but partitioning gives you faster defrags,

Does NTFS really need to be defragged anyways? No other modern filesystem needs to be.

faster re-install of windows (format c:!),

Do you really need to reinstall windows that much?

better organization,

How exactly?

and MORE space.

Again, how? If anything, you lose space (though trivial in amount).

well then, I must be stuck in the 90's and FAT32 days, thanks for the wake up call. Multiple partitions keeps me organized better at least.

 

[xenos500]

Originally posted by: lozina
Partisions? What partisions! I don't need no stinkin' partisions! I don't need a Q: drive.

Q: drive is my best one

 

[Lonyo]

They're not organised