How many gigs for your windows partition?

[civad]

Zero.

I dont use windows.

 

[SpanishFry]

I also have a 3rd. It gets mounted at 5AM every morning, a backup is made of both the other drives, and it is unmounted again. That is the ONLY thing that drive has ever done since I bought it for that purpose alone.

How do you do this? I must know 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: pitupepito2000

Originally posted by: tm37
160GB

One poartition for everything 😉

You should really have more than one partition. For example, if something ever happens to your windows partition and you need to reinstall your OS, you don't need to worry because you can wipe your Windows parition and keep your parition with critical data intact. Also you could do windows reinstalls a lot easier if you don't have to be moving around your important data every time you reinstall. Having more than one partition is just good practice.

I don't understand that argument for two reasons.

1. I should be backing up my critical files to separate media on a regular basis regardless of whether or not I use 1 or 100 partitions.
2. If I need to reinstall my OS, I still need to reinstall my applications, even if they are installed on a separate partition.

As a result, I just use a single partition for my Windows install.

1. Your partition may get hosed before your monthly backup, and your critical files will be ok in another partition. Also if you are backing up thins, having them on a separate partition and making backup of them is good, you should prepare for the worst, always.

2. I didn't mean putting your apps in a different partition, only data and documents.

Do daily backups. 😉

I keep all important data in multiple places, and will begin to backup in the near future (read whenever I stop being lazy).

Plus, installing over Windows has always worked for me.

 

[imported_Pipeline]

5 gigs just for OS (c: drive)

All applications get installed onto D: drive

Games get separate E: drive

Personal data gets F: drive

Optical drive is Z:

Pr0n requires 200 GB mirrored partition.

 

[brainwave]

I have a 20gig partition for OS and apps on an 80gig HD and a second 120gig HD for data, backup, etc. The logic of having OS and apps on a separate partition is obvious. The only reason not to do this is if you don't know how to repartition your HD (in which case you should find out), or you have a small HD, like a 20gig on a laptop, and you want the space to be used as efficiently as possible. The first time you need to reload the OS you will thank yourself for have multiple partitions. Also, the first time your HD suddenly dies, as happened to me, you will become complusive about backups to a 2nd HD. I recommend a small program called Autosave, which can be set to automatically backup every data file whenever it has been changed. It's great for those of us (read "everyone") who, at best, backup intermittently.

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: kmr1212

I also have a 3rd. It gets mounted at 5AM every morning, a backup is made of both the other drives, and it is unmounted again. That is the ONLY thing that drive has ever done since I bought it for that purpose alone.

How do you do this? I must know 🙂

It's done (just a guess) with a cron job and the dd command

 

[NewBlackDak]

Originally posted by: Monoman

Originally posted by: kmr1212

I also have a 3rd. It gets mounted at 5AM every morning, a backup is made of both the other drives, and it is unmounted again. That is the ONLY thing that drive has ever done since I bought it for that purpose alone.

How do you do this? I must know 🙂

It's done (just a guess) with a cron job and the dd command

YEP