Disk space is cheap. I just toss in another big honker when needed, and run
single partitions on all Hard Drives, except for the few dual-boot PCs I
have.
I used to partition my drives years ago to get maximum storage efficiency
when a 1Gb HDD ran $800 (yes, eight hundred!). With FAT16/FAT32, The more
you store the more space is wasted due to progressively larger minimum bytes
used per cluster. Here are two of the resources I found that do a decent
job of explaining the efficiency problem.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/part.htm
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive
/l0901/39l01/39l01.asp (NTFS efficiency explained)
But, with Hard Drives selling for so cheap now I look more at ease of use
and cost be damned. I far prefer to run everything on Drive C, which is
what pretty much of my client machines do as well. So, what the hell? I
try to run in a similar environment for some semblance of consistency
between my machinery and theirs. Less to deal with.
Gil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: profoxtech-bounces /AT/ leafe .DO.T com
> [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Ted Roche
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:35 PM
> To: profoxtech /AT/ leafe .DO.T com
> Subject: Re: [NF] Drive partition size
>
>
> On 1/31/07, James E Harvey <jharvey@hanoverpa.com> wrote:
> > Is there a "recommended" drive size for the "C" drive in a
> partitioned hard
> > drive?
> >
> > I'm getting a new pc with a 250G HDD.
> >
> > I thought I'd just have software installed on the "C" drive,
> and everything
> > else on the "D" drive.
> >
>
> primary partitions
> 25 Gb C: drive for OS and "Program Files"
> 200 Gb D: drive for data
> 4 Gb E: drive for windows swap and for hibernation
>
> extended partition
> 4 Gb for a Knoppix install with all the extras (to reset your Windows
> passwords when it breaks, for example, or to recover files from NTFS
> when Windows refuses to boot)
> 17 Gb for an experimental Linux install (Ubuntu or Fedora or SuSE) -
> you'll like it! - possibly broken up as /boot, /swap, /var, /home,
> /root, depending on who you want to listen too, but free space for you
> to experiment with.
>
> --
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
>
>
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