[Techtalk] partitioning - pro, con

[Miriam English]

Hi everybody,

I just bought a 1 Terabyte hard drive [squeals of delight]

Normally I partition my drives to keep different kinds of data apart and 
so that I can have small bootable partitions that can't interfere with 
large data partitions. But I intend this drive to hold just data. Data 
directories can easily change size dynamically, whereas partitions for 
different types of data don't change size.

Anybody know of good arguments why I *should* or *should not* partition 
the drive into a bunch of smaller areas?

Just thought I'd see if I was overlooking any good arguments before 
committing myself to one or the other.

Thanks,

	- Miriam

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