How do you partition your Hard Drive(s)

[Mickey Eye]

C:\ 50GB OS/Apps/Games
D:\ 200GB Mp3/Movies/Images

 

[Eli]

I used to do it that way too... one small partition for the OS, the rest for everything else..

I format and reinstall about once every 3 years now, so there's no point.

 

[casper114]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Back in the day it was cool to have the OS on one partition, Apps installed on another, Docs on another, etc. Just wondering what anyone normally does these days?

I usually just have oen partition for Windows and all Software and another for My Documents. I don't do the MP3 thing so I have no need for a special partition for that.

However I'll have two 160 Gig drives and am just looking for ideas on how to set them up.

As of now I'm thinking of just doing 30 or so for Windows and Apps, the rest of one drive for My Documents and maybe the other for software program executables for safe keeping. But really not sure.

If you could tell me the benefit of all those partitions then I would be happy but to me unless your installing multiple operating systems there is no point to multiple partitions. If your hard drive goes out you lose all the info if it's on one partion or on multiple on the same drive.

 

[casper114]

Originally posted by: dug777

Originally posted by: aiex
Linux box currently has over 1yr of uptime

Don't turn it off if you like that drive.

 

[SagaLore]

I don't partition. All it does is waste space.

 

[0roo0roo]

10o/s partition. makes ghost image creation/restore easy as pie

 

[hypn0tik]

20 GB for my OS
20 GB for my personal files (i.e. Resume, school stuff etc...)
120 GB Shared (i.e. pr0n)

 

[Amused]

One big C drive. If I want other drives, I'll add more physical drives.

I never saw the advantage of separate partitions on a single drive. Seems like a huge waste of space and time to me.

 

[vitoprimo]

C: 10GB for OS (FAT32)
D: 30GB for programs and critical data (FAT32)
E: 60GB primarily to host Ghost images (FAT32)
F-?: as needed NTFS

 

[Steve]

My 120GB drive is really 111 after the math, so I have C: as the first 11 (OS and apps) and the remaining 100 for file storage. I do all my drives this way, eg. a 40GB drive (really 37) will have 7 for Windows and 30 for storage.

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: essasin
C

 

[Kelemvor]

And what about FAT32 vs NTFS? Any real difference for a home computer? I know FAT32 has a file limit size of like 4 gigs that has bit me a couple times with huge ISO files but other than that, is there any real reason to use one or the other?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Single 200Gb drive:

C: 50Gb for OS and if I forget to state:
D: Programs and Data

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: vitoprimo
C: 10GB for OS (FAT32)
D: 30GB for programs and critical data (FAT32)
E: 60GB primarily to host Ghost images (FAT32)
F-?: as needed NTFS

You should use NTFS on your OS partition. ah, screw it, you should use it full-stop.

 

[mitmot]

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: essasin
C

 

[n yusef]

My Windows hard drive only has a C drive, but in linux I have (out of 80 GB) an 8GB / partition, 2GB swap, and 70 GB /home.

 

[neutralizer]

2 HDD

80 GB
C: OS, System programs
D: Games
E: Documents, Music, etc

160 GB
F: Anime
G: Images
H: Temp, Downloads

 

[GoingUp]

yep, 500 gigs and 9 partitions.... easy to keep everything sorted

 

[Rudee]

Is there a way to defragment partitioned drives as a single volume rather than having to do one partition after the other?

 

[desteffy]

I have each drive as one big partition. I find FOLDERS the best way to keep things sorted

EDIT: although I do typically have one hard drive just for OS/Programs, and Data distributed over other drives.

 

[Anubis]

i dont
i put windows on its own 40 gig HDD
and then have 3 other HDDs for stuff, mp3s, vids, docs.....

 

[nomadh]

Originally posted by: aiex
I always keep windows and documents separate, that way when windows needs its usual reformat there is no need to loose all the documents. At the moment i have 40gb windows, 60gb local documents then 160gb network documents, stored on a linux box and accessable via samba. Linux box currently has over 1yr of uptime

I basically agree. I want win and core prgs on c: rest on d: or e: whatever drives I may have. Ghost the c: part copy to d: part or other drive and also to cd/dvd media. I told my dad about ghost so he used it and saved the image to dvd. It blew up like usual so when I went to restore I found he had 5 or 6 dvds for his c: Needless to say we hit an error halfway through dvd 2 and the whole image was wasted. My c: drives in win98 were usually about 1 gig. Win2k 6-8 gig business and 8-16 gig home. XP C drive usually <20gig. If you don't ghost or reimage it probably doesn't matter.
Oh and of course anything important at work is on the novell network. Typically 1+ yr of uptime for the last 13 years.