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From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 11:15 From: "Duddits" <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> | On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:41:22 -0400, "David H. Lipman" | <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: >>From: "Duddits" <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> >>| On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon" >>| <jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>Hi all, >>>>I've got a single partition on my primary hard drive, and I'm looking to >>>>improve on my partitioning and backup strategy. Been googling, but I'd >>>>like to know what savvy ACFers do. >>>>What partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? What do you have >>>>on each partition? How big is the partition that has your Windows >>>>directory? What partitioning tool(s) do you use? What's your strategy for >>>>backing up your partitions? What tool(s) do you use? >>>>I'll appreciate any replies. >>>>jim >>| Drive 1 - 750GB WD Caviar Black >>C:: 100GB - Windows encoding installable "Program Files" >>D:: 100GB - Portable "Program Files" >>E:: The Rest - music, downloads, databases, digital camera photos, >>| etc, etc >>F:: DVD/CD burner >>| Drive 2 - 80GB WD Caviar >>G:: 80GB - Swap File 4GB minimum 4GB maximum, backup files, Alt.binz & >>| it's temporary downloads >>| Drive 3 - 80GB Deskstar >>H:: 80GB - TrueCrypt encrypted partition >>| My rational: >>| 1. Windows on a small quick to defrag partition >>| 2, Windows on the fastest drive >>| 3. Swap file on a separate drive to help prevent thrashing between >>| swap files and OS and/or programs >>4:: Only C and G's portable program folder need to be defraged on a >>| regular basis since the others are rarely used archive files or files >>| that are destined to be burned to DVD/CD I have set Puran Defrag to >>| automatically do a boot time defrag on C: once a week I manually >>| defrag G's portable programs folder a few times/month. >>If you Sawp File is on a volume of the same hard disk that was partiotioned - you cgain >>NO >>benefit. >>It needs to be a separate, physical, hard disk such that the read/writes can be >>multi-tasked bwtwen the OS drove and the swap drive. | Look again. Swap file is on Drive2 *not* the OS drive. (edited 8GB sb | 80GB ;-)) OK, was confused by the layout/wording. Mea culpa. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: duh on 18 Jul 2010 12:22 David Lipman wrote: >Don't partition. It adds nothing. [snip] Wrong. There are pros/cons with disk partitioning. Poor use of available disk space can be a con (ie guessing what size to make each partition will rarely be correct, so you can get wasted or not enough space), but imaging for backup purposes is a pro. More disk drives is a good thing because it provides a good method of backing up across drives.
From: s|b on 18 Jul 2010 12:25 On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:24:52 -0500, jim.s.witherspoon wrote: > What partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? What do you have > on each partition? How big is the partition that has your Windows > directory? What partitioning tool(s) do you use? What's your strategy for > backing up your partitions? What tool(s) do you use? What OS do /you/ use? -- s|b
From: David H. Lipman on 18 Jul 2010 12:27 From: "duh" <not.here(a)or.anywhere> | David Lipman wrote: >>Don't partition. It adds nothing. [snip] | Wrong. There are pros/cons with disk partitioning. Poor use of available | disk space can be a con (ie guessing what size to make each partition | will rarely be correct, so you can get wasted or not enough space), but | imaging for backup purposes is a pro. More disk drives is a good thing | because it provides a good method of backing up across drives. Yes, more "physical" disk drives. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: s|b on 18 Jul 2010 12:31
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:25:03 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote: > 40GB for the OS, not much breathing room for when you install software and for the User > Profiles, etc. I have a C: partition of 20 GiB for WinXP Home SP3. ATM 7,72 GiB is used which leaves 61% of free space. I have all the software I need. My Documents folder is located on D: -- s|b |