Re: Why do proprietary machines use one partition?
From: Ken Blake (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:30:45 -0700
In news:MKiUd.16179$S9.6072@fe78.usenetserver.com,
ByTor <ByTor@snowdog.com> typed:
> It just amazes me how countless amounts of people will increase
> the
> probability of losing ALL their data by isolating it to the OS
> drive.....Yes drives can fail and having more than one
> partition would
> be irrelavant, but the probably of losing the OS functionality
> is
> higher than physically losing the drive itself......so hence
> the many
> problems I read about in the groups with people wanting to
> recover
> their data......
I'm not going to address the merits of one partition vs two,
three, or some other number, but I wanted to point out that the
*only* real solution to the potential problem of "losing ALL
their data" is by putting in place and using a good backup
strategy.
Having data in a separate partition still leaves it vulnerable to
hard drive crashes, user errors, severe power glitches like
nearby lightning strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the
computer.
Without a good backup, stored externally to the computer, there
is no real protection. If you think that a partitioning scheme
substantially increases your security in this regard, you're
kidding yourself. Whatever the merits of having multiple
partitions, this isn't it.
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