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entwisi · 27-01-2006, 12:55

Yes,
At least seperate your OS/Programs from your data. That way if/when you want to reinstall/upgrade your OS your data is kept seperate and doesn't get touched when you trash the OS partition. I would assume you are using NTFS as well, If you are using FAT32 you could end up with clusters taht are inefficient particularly if you have lots of smaller files.

Having one partition is a recipie for disaster IMHO. There is no benefit to having a single enormous partition with todays disk sizes.

In Neils case I would have a primary partition of ~30-40 Gig and a 250ish data partition. (Well, in truth I'd have a 10 gig windows, a 250 gig data and a 15 gig Gentoo Linux :O )

Ian

27-01-2006, 12:55	#5
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Hard Drives. Yes, At least seperate your OS/Programs from your data. That way if/when you want to reinstall/upgrade your OS your data is kept seperate and doesn't get touched when you trash the OS partition. I would assume you are using NTFS as well, If you are using FAT32 you could end up with clusters taht are inefficient particularly if you have lots of smaller files. Having one partition is a recipie for disaster IMHO. There is no benefit to having a single enormous partition with todays disk sizes. In Neils case I would have a primary partition of ~30-40 Gig and a 250ish data partition. (Well, in truth I'd have a 10 gig windows, a 250 gig data and a 15 gig Gentoo Linux :O ) Ian __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?