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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] Drive partition size > > > On 1/31/07, James E Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com 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.
