Is 3 partitions too much for one hard drive?

[MuffD]

I have a 120gb Maxtor 8mb cache drive and currently it has:
2 partitions:
20gb
100gb

WinXP on the 20gb and misc on the 100. I was going to divide the 100gb into a 90gb and then a 10gb so I could install linux.

Thanks for your advice.

 

[boyRacer]

<--- has 6 partitions on a 120gb raid array... 😀
<--- has a USB HD backup of everything in case his array pukes on him 🙁

 

[MuffD]

Mine is not in a Raid though. Would that matter any?

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: muffstah
Mine is not in a Raid though. Would that matter any?

Nope....would not matter.

 

[Pacinamac23]

3 is hardly anything. I have much more then that on almost all of my drives.

 

[SexyK]

You going to have to have more than 3 partitions, AFAIK every Linux install requires at least 2 partitions... one for data and one for the swap. I could be wrong though. Either way, as everyone has said, it won't do anything negative at all to your drive. Nothing physical is even changing on the disk, its just a set of flags and markers written to the drive that tell it where the partitions are.

Kramer

 

[Jeff7181]

I have 5 partitions I use for Windows, and I've allowed Mandrake 9.1 about 5 GB of space to use as it sees fit... my drive is 80 GB total.

 

[Sid59]

pfft .. i put my 120 on 114 x 1 gig paritions .. lol

 

[PunDogg]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: muffstah
Mine is not in a Raid though. Would that matter any?

Nope....would not matter.

 

[SUOrangeman]

A few thoughts on partitioning

-SUO

 

[ivan2]

Originally posted by: Sid59
pfft .. i put my 120 on 114 x 1 gig paritions .. lol

ROFL!!!

 

[ChefJoe]

Originally posted by: Sid59
pfft .. i put my 120 on 114 x 1 gig paritions .. lol

Hrm, I wonder what happens when you run out of letters for drives. Can you make a drive "$" or a drive "aa" ? in Windows, in linux?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: ChefJoe

Originally posted by: Sid59
pfft .. i put my 120 on 114 x 1 gig paritions .. lol

Hrm, I wonder what happens when you run out of letters for drives. Can you make a drive "$" or a drive "aa" ? in Windows, in linux?

Good question. Anyone have a real answer?

 

[Pariah]

You can't assign any more drive letters once you hit Z in DOS/Windows, "limiting" you to 24 assignable letters.

 

[mchammer187]

7 partitions

3x120GB

 

[mchammer187]

DP 🙁

 

[sharkeeper]

LOL, I remember when I bought a 3.8GB Quantum Fireball (1996) and was using Win95 with FAT16! I had so many partitions that I labeled them after states. It was funny downloading programs to Nevada and copying stuff over to Virgina. Windows ran from Georgia. 🙂

-DAK-