c:\ 12gb ntfs...windows installation
d:\ 20gb fat32...a partition on a different drive dedicated to program files not being run from the windows drive, and so that windows can bloat all it wants on it's own 12gb window of growing size...sometimes used as a backup partition
h:\ 130gb ext3...mainly where i install games, downloads, movies, backups, and best of all music (the 130gb and 20gb are on a 160gb hard drive, the other partitions belong to an 80gb hard drive)
j:\ 16gb ufs...for my desktopbsd installation, because pcbsd blows balls with its pbi bs
i:\ 47gb fat32...for storage of drivers and programs, also the main backup partition
Hmmm, partitioning IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING DW-HUNTER. If only you can just imagine what happens to hard drive when you have no partitions with windows and the ntfs filesystem (get a virus, forced to format, and lose all of your ****)
My 130gb partition died because of that ****ty filesystem. I have switched to something quicker, reliable, with not file size limitations. That's right, i formatted my 130gb partition to ext3
A good decision, and i use it in windows all the time with ext2ifs.
http://www.fs-driver.org/And who the hell here thinks it's a good idea to use fat32 for anything other than a usb flash drive? Fat32 is more reliable than ntfs but it's got that damned 4gb file size limitation to it. Hell, don't even use fat32
Ever so occasionally in life you deal with a file that is 4gb in size or bigger.
But why do i still use fat32 and ntfs? Ntfs seems to be more reliable on smaller partitions where you have windows installed, it's also faster than fat32, but it really seems that i can't install windows onto an ext3 filesystem. Fat32 is still reliable and on those partitions i have fat32 i am only ever backing up what the hell is on my bsd and windows desktops, as well as there designated purposes.
I use ext3 on the 130gb partition soley for reliability. I mean like i said, ntfs took a **** on me one day, and hey i lost everything, ntfs i don't know why, but it just doesn't seem to be a good idea for big partitions, also over the course of a year, my 130gb partition has not taken a **** again going with ext3 (i only had my data on the 130gb partition with ntfs for like 6months).
Other than that. Partitioning is a great way to utilize 100% of your hard drive, categorize, keep stuff safe, keep stuff separated, and in the event of an emergency, have extra places to back **** up at. I myself have never had a single problem with partitioning ever. It always works fine for me. The only hard drive i've ever had fail on me was an IBM deskstar 80gb, which failed due to mechanical reasons so bad it pulled IBM out of the hard drive business (i had an emachine at one point and i wondered my hard drive died after 3 months, until i found out the damn 80gb they gave me was an IBM deathstar). Since the emachine of years ago, i have my own custom built rig again. Partitioning yet again working like a charm
I know my hard drive set up may seem pretty ****ing crazy, but it's actually not. With adventures into higher capacity hard drives that's a different animal. I keep my OS's on a separate 80gb hard drive that's 5400rpms with each OS running on a partition of sufficient size with it's preferred file system, after that the 80gb drive contains a universal backup and storage partition (fat32 makes it universal because it works with any OS and it really creates ease with bsd and windows on the same drive).
Then comes the mighty 160gb hard drive that is 7200rpms. The 130gb partition has all of my games installed for bsd and windows to run freely as well as a place to put all of my media, it's a damn big partition and it's faster and more reliable with ext3 and doesn't have the dreaded 4gb file size limitation. Then comes the 20gb partition on that drive that is fat32 to make it more universal, and is the home for absolutely every program i install for windows (the idea was that windows can have the 80gb hard drive all to itself, and all of the loading for it's programs that i installed wouldn't come from the same drive, i don't know if it's a negligible idea), and is also another backup partition that both windows and bsd can access with the least ease.
I'd make everything ext3 if windows had support for it besides through something like ext2ifs. Hell fat32 is there for me when i don't have ext2ifs for windows, and then i just wouldn't have access to my games, movie, or music on the 130gb.
My hard drives and partitioning scheme is an elaborate plot out to get you
But personally if my dad didn't get me a replacement hard drive for my 80gb ibm deathstar on my college computer, i wouldn't get much work done. The damn thing he got me was a 160gb wd caviar, then i scored an 80gb wd caviar for free. WTF am i suppposed to do with all of that space?
Originally i'd be just content with a 50gb drive, that's got enough space for what i want to do.
BUT PARTITIONING IS GOOD, ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE ONE HARD DRIVE!! IT IS TRIED, TRUE, AND NEVER POINTLESS!!
please someone tell me that the people who find partitioning pointless aren't the same people who defrag daily