Hard drive partitioning

[Anusha]

How many partitions do you have on your hard drive(s)?

If you create only one partition on your hard drive, what you do have against creating multiple partitions, and wise versa.

 

[Lich]

i have 9 Partitions...

i have 2 hards one is 120 gb other is 80 gb

 

[Anusha]

9 partitions!!! OMG. Don't you get confused?

Why do you really need that much?

I have only 3 partitions on 2 hard drives (2 on one drive and 1 on the other)

 

[dpg]

Only 3 partitions

 

[Anusha]

Only 3 partitions

On one drive da?

Why not 2? why not 4? Why specifically 3? Tell us more.

 

[dpg]

On one drive da?

Why not 2? why not 4? Why specifically 3? Tell us more.

Yes (One HDD)

Why specifically 3? : I dont remeber why

 

[ifadh132]

waaaaa i have only 2 and ma HDD is only 20GB help me get 1 for cheap

 

[thilinapm]

i having six partitions on my 160 GB disk

 

[Lich]

9 partitions!!! OMG. Don't you get confused?

Why do you really need that much?

I have only 3 partitions on 2 hard drives (2 on one drive and 1 on the other)

nae machan.. mata hama file ekama mathakai.. anika koheda thiyenne kiyala as deka wahagena yanna puluwann... echcharata matakai..

 

[Anusha]

waaaaa i have only 2 and ma HDD is only 20GB help me get 1 for cheap

I'll sell my 160GB for Rs.5,500 with 5 months warranty left

 

[Anusha]

nae machan.. mata hama file ekama mathakai.. anika koheda thiyenne kiyala as deka wahagena yanna puluwann... echcharata matakai..

But why 9? Space eka waste wenawane

 

[Lich]

hmm eth machan eka kadala thiyenne mehema..

01 System
02 Business
03 Sinhala Songs
04 English Songs
05.Sinhala Albums
06.English Albums
07.English Videos
08.Sinhala Videos
09.Backup

 

[sridanu]

ive got 2 HD's
80GB- partioned equally into 2
20GB- partioned equally into 2

The more partions u hav the less utiliation of yoiur HD space. But the less partions u hav the more cumbersome it becomes to find files.

 

[Anusha]

My setups is,
C:\ == SYSTEM
D:\ == Data
E:\ == Backup
This way, it doesn't waste space.

 

[Anusha]

But the less partions u hav the more cumbersome it becomes to find files.

Unless you know where you put them, having more partitions wouldn't make things easier. Folders are there for that.

 

[Lich]

anusha.. just tlel me.. is partition is so important to save hard disc space. in the above thread u said im waisting space.. can u explain that to me. please

 

[Anusha]

You are not physically wasting any disk space. But say you have a 160GB Hard Drive with four 40GB partitions. Say, all partitions have only 3GB space left. So, you have 12GB, but only 3GB contiguous space. Say you want to copy a DVD for encoding to DivX. But you can't, because you can't find contiguous space to copy the DVD to. You have 12GB, but it's wasted. If you had 40GB and 120GB partitions, you would have 9GB left on the 120GB. See?

 

[Novindu]

hmm eth machan eka kadala thiyenne mehema..

01 System
02 Business
03 Sinhala Songs
04 English Songs
05.Sinhala Albums
06.English Albums
07.English Videos
08.Sinhala Videos
09.Backup

cool ha???? piliwelata wada karana lamayek wagei penne nanag

 

[Novindu]

hmmm i have 3 on ma 80 Gb disk
C for XP(20)
D for everythn and(40)
E for Dloads(16.3) due to some bad sectors

 

[Anusha]

No one else has a hard drive?