Re: How to make a new partition?
- From: "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:23:51 -0600
Chuck Davis wrote:
For the life of me, I don't know the perceived advantages of
partioning the drive. I've read a lot of "reasons," but none made
it throught my thick skull. In those computers that arrive from the
manufacturer with the OS in a partition, I have found that that
partition will eventually be too small and cause problems.
The *only* technical advantage that is hard to argue with is if you want to
store your DATA - nothing else - on the second partition.
The advantage? If you *have* to reinstall the OS and you know what you are
doing - at least your data stays intact - given the reason for the whole
mess is non-hardware related and whatever software issue that caused your
reinstall did not include deleting files from other drives. *grin*
As far as non-technical reasoning...
Organization. For some people it is simpler to think that all their
applications are installed on D. Their operating system is C. Their
picture files are E. Their word documents are F. Etc... Perception only -
but that goes a long way with human beings - after all - most things are
perception only when you get down to it.
Personally - I make one large partition and install the OS and all
applications.
I buy additional drive(s) and install them as needed - usually in a RAID
fashion.
As for the implication that the "...partition will eventually be too small
and cause problems..." <- not true. If I was to buy some people a computer
and put a 750GB drive in there and partition the C drive to be 250GB and D
to be 500GB (I know the numbers are not accurate - just go with the
theory) --> then most people (non-power users, people who use their system
for email, games, pictures, word processing, etc..) would not only NOT fill
up their C drive - but probably always be *not utilizing* a huge amount of
that space.
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