How is your HDD set up? (Partitioned)

Nocturnal

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I have 1x74GB Raptor and I partitioned it so that it has one 5GB partition. This is strictly for my Windows installation. The rest is going to be where I install Ad-Aware, Office, etc. How do I get a new install/fresh format to see all those directories after a new format?
 

KoolDrew

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I just have 2 partitions. One is for OS, games apps etc. then I have another partition for storage. This if I have to reformat I can reformat only the first partition and I will still have all my music and stuff that was on my storage partition. It is best to have a small amount of partitions.
 

Nothinman

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As few as possible, the more partitions you have the greater chance for problems and more you slow down the drive if all the partitions are being used.
 

n0cmonkey

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On the Windows machine:
2x 200GB disks, 2x 200GB partitions.

Powerbooks:
1 big partition.

OpenBSD machines:
I have seperate partitions for: /, /home, /usr, /usr/local, /tmp, /var, swap, and /var/tmp. (IIRC, I don't have access to the box right now). This is done for security reasons.

 

Canterwood

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Main rig, I like to keep a smallish partition for OS/installed apps and one large partition for data files/movies/games/etc.



 

KoolDrew

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
As few as possible, the more partitions you have the greater chance for problems and more you slow down the drive if all the partitions are being used.

Agreed. You should only have more if you have special needs. Like I like to keep my MP3's and other stuff like that on a seperate partition.
 

Zucarita9000

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I don't use partitions. I have an OS hard drive, a Docs hard drive and an external USB hard drive for backup. All without partitions.

My brother's PC does, though. One partition for the OS, one for games and another on for Docs.
 

drag

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sfdisk: no partition table present.
tweety:~# fdisk /dev/hda
/dev/hda
Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 195313 @ 64 ( 95.4M) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 4882813 @ 195377 ( 2.3G) Linux swap
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Debian...Bitch 68322194 @ 5078190 ( 32.6G) Linux native
/dev/hda5 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_9 43809840 @ 73400384 ( 20.9G) HFS
/dev/hda6 Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 117210224 ( 8.0k) Free space
 

Nothinman

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I don't use partitions. I have an OS hard drive, a Docs hard drive and an external USB hard drive for backup. All without partitions.

If you're using Windows that's not possible, you need at least 1 partition per drive.
 

duragezic

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1 80GB drive with a ~30GB partition for windows, installed games & apps. The rest is a partition for storage of mp3s, backed up files, etc.. I'll probably be getting a new 160GB or so for storage so my 80GB can be 1 partition for all installed things. But for now, I need a partition to hold things during format.
 

Joemonkey

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lets see... i have a 160gb drive partitioned into a 20GB OS and programs drive, a 40GB "server" drive, and a 100GB data drive

I also have two more 160GB drives set up as JBOD
 

D1gger

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74GB Raptor #1 - One Partition - Win/XP Pro and Applications
74GB Raptor #2 - One Partition - Win/XP 64
160GB Seagate - 50GB Partition - Fedora Core 3 x64
- 110GB Partition - Data / Music / Video Files
 

hawk82

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one 200gb seagate sata partitioned as follows:

c: (on drive 0) 642 MB 28 MB free - swap file
d: (on drive 0) 14.68 GB 7.17 GB free - general applications installed here. program files, etc
e: (on drive 0) 31.45 GB 10.80 GB free - music files
f: (on drive 0) 52.43 GB 23.89 GB free - installed games
g: (on drive 0) 96.77 GB 15.03 GB free - rest of files, installation files.
h: (on drive 0) 4.07 GB 347 MB free - windows xp pro installation
 

timswim78

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Originally posted by: KoolDrew
I just have 2 partitions. One is for OS, games apps etc. then I have another partition for storage. This if I have to reformat I can reformat only the first partition and I will still have all my music and stuff that was on my storage partition. It is best to have a small amount of partitions.



I have the same setup. My storage partition gets backed up to my linux box.


I have no idea why so many users decide to put their applications on one partition and their OS on another parition. It just seems like such a bad idea to me. If you have to reinstall your OS, all of those apps are toast.
 

cubby1223

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Give your primary partition plenty of breathing room. No matter how dedicated people try to be, programs can still be installed to it, data stored to it, host of other reasons space gets taken up. It's a real pain having to do disk cleanup while the secondary partition has oodles upon oodles of free space. Harddrives are big & cheap, leave plenty of growing room on the primary partition.

EDIT - my own drive is 200gig, partitioned 64gig & ~125gig. If I were to redo the partitioning, I'd likely do 40gig & ~150gig next time.
 

dderolph

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1 80GB drive:
C (6GB): Windows 98SE and various apps
D (4GB): Some more apps plus data files and downloaded software.
E (3GB): Used this for Windows 98SE's Temp directory and Temporary Internet Files; reduces fragmentation of the OS partition.
F (30.6GB): Windows XP and apps.
G (31.1GB): Really not being used for anything now; have had a few games installed on it.