[Techtalk] partitioning - pro, con

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Miriam English wrote:
> 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
>
>   

Miriam,

I started with making a parition for each type of data. Nowadays if the 
disk holds only data, i will simply make one big partition, and then 
using directory structure let the division be flexible.


I've gone more and more into KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid.

Cheers,

Rudy