[HLUG] hard drive partitioning advice

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

Matt wrote:
> As you mentioned it's a "data" disk i'm
> guessing you're not running an os from it and that it's just there for
> storage?

a little bell has just gone off in my head,
i think it used to be that one disk was the master, all others slaves,
but as my desktop has the newfangled SATA disks
can they both have bootable partitions on them,
and if so is there any advantage or disadvantage
to having bootable OS's on both disks?



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From: "matt stone" <stone.matthew at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:14 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [HLUG] hard drive partitioning advice

> 2009/3/24 dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>:
> 
>> And how to partition it?
>> In the past when I split up huge hard drives into smaller partitions
>> I found it a pain when each had a bit of free space and I wanted to cram
>> something else on-
>> better to have just one big partition with one bit of free space.
>> That's when 20GB was huge.
>> But what advice do you HLUGers have on partitioning for me?
> 
> Depends on what it's for. As you mentioned it's a "data" disk i'm
> guessing you're not running an os from it and that it's just there for
> storage?
> 
> If that's case, whatever suits your needs. For a non os disk, unless i
> wanted it for a specific purpose, i wouldn't bother partitioning.
> There's nothing worse than having loads of partitions and not quite
> enough space on any of them to store a large file.
> 
> Cheers
> Matt
> 
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