> > Is there a "recommended" drive size for the "C" drive in a partitioned hard > > drive? > > It depends on what you're going to use the box for and what/how much > you're going to install on it.
I'd personally say don't bother partitioning-- just use one large partition. I've seen pretty much no benefit in the recent past from partitioning, and just had headache when the limits of the "c:\" drive was hit, many software apps(though sometimes customizable, but always a pain vs. hitting 'enter') put 'data' on the c:\ drive, etc. > > 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. Personally, I have two hard drives(dual 200GB SATA's I bought years ago)-- the C:\ drive I use for system and anything I can lose, and if something's really important and I don't want to lose it, I put it on D:\(seperate physical drive). I tried mirror'd raid(hardware and software) before, but it was too slow for my tastes. Having two physical drives lets you backup from one to the other as well, along with your less frequent network/tape/DVD backup. I now have a slick rsync setup to sync changed files to a small linux box I built for that purpose(and the super-important stuff to an off-site server via the internet). > Which is, of course, the way it ought to be. Stupid MSFT never cared > about segregating software and data, burying user data and settings in > the bowels of the C drive. (rant note: Linux, by design, keeps these > things separate, which is one reason I took to it so comfortably.) Most Linux distribs, and even many Linux 'gurus' I've talked to in recent years don't bother with partitioning the way we did in the past. No seperate /, /boot, /var, /home/, /usr/, and swap. Most say just / and swap. Unless you have to achieve some great performance by segregating your /var partition from the rest, etc., I really don't see the point of partitioning a single drive anymore(beyond / and swap). > I'd say 20 GB would be way more than enough for C. I've got a W2K box > with a 6GB C drive and it regularly runs out of room. Another box with > 12 GB is very comfortable, but I don't load it up with a lot of stuff. > If you're worried, make it 25 - the difference between a 225 and a 230 D > drive isn't much. <s> Yeah-- you'll NEVER have 25GB of program files... ;-) > I move mysql and such to a /home/data dir.) But mysql data is constantly accessed data, spool, and log files, which would typically be in the /var partition by general Linux partitioning rules(or at least those of 2.0 kernel when I last bothered)... -- Derek _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
