Re: Partitioning Horrors?

"Frank Stearns" wrote ...
To both Scott and Richard -
I must disagree a bit on this one... I partition the main
system drive for two main reasons:

- much easier and faster daily delta backups over the LAN...
- one more layer of simple, high-level organization: ....

Longer-term advantages include:
- I take "image" backups of partitions, ....
- damage is usually limited to just that partition. ....
- easier migration to new hw.

I guess I rather do that myself for most of the same reasons.
But not with partitions. I generally use a small (~80GB) hard
drive dedicated as the boot/system/cache/program drive.

Then I store actual data on other drives (typically removable
ones organized by project, etc.) Same technique for both
audio and video projects.


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