What are your partitions?

[Kaitlyn]

For those of you that have a partitioned/multiple drives (which all of you should! ), how is yours organized?

I'm moving to a single SATA drive and will have my Windows install, and then partitions mainly for organizational sake:
- Files
- Server files (my development work)
- Downloads
- Media (music, movies, pictures)

[Amourek]

2 partitions. One for Windows & programs so I can wipe it without losing any data, and the other for everything else (organized by folders). No point in having more partitions on the same drive unless there's something you do that heavily fragments the drive and you want to seperate that.

[Rayblue88]

Partition 2 drives like this.
one for windows/programs/

second one for all your important files, mp3, movies, documents, etc.

if something happens to the first drive, simply fix/reinstall without harming your important files. Second drive with all your important files will not be touched(hopefully not) lol

[board123]

Drive 1 (160 GB):
- Vista + programs
- VMware systems (XP Pro)
- Ubuntu

Drive 2 (250 GB):
- All my data files

Drive 3 (320 GB eSATA):
- Backup of Vista + programs (aka C: drive)
- Backup of Drive 2
- Miscellaneous storage

[Digital_Domain]

Drive 1 (36GB):
- WinXP
- VMware
- Programs/some important files

Drive 2 (160GB):
- Random files ->scripts/code/video editing/VM backups
- Drive 1 images

Drive 3&4 (300GB - RAID 1):
- Music/Movies/Games

I really need to reinstall Windows and dual boot with Ubuntu, and get all my files organized.

[jollyeskimo]

Bah, I need another 500GB or two... burning stuff onto DVD's is getting really old. What with the rise of hidef videos, the drives are getting filled up faster and faster.


HDD 1 [sata 300GB]

Partition 1 (45.6% full): System (100GB) - OS, programs
Partition 2 (98.1% full): Storage (179GB) - Games, anime, photos, torrents

HDD 2 [sata 320GB]

Partition 1 (89.2% full): Aux Storage - ISO's, movies, mp3's, setup exe's

HDD 3 [sata 500GB]

Partition 1 (82.8% full): Shows / Car Shows

HDD 4 [unplugged sata hotswap 160GB]

Partition 1 (20.1% full): Tertiary offline mp3 backup

[Negotiator]

2 drives, 5 partitions.

Drive 1 - 250gb

Partition 1 30gb, in FAT32 to be accessible from DOS (just in case)
-Windows XP
-All programs
Makes it easy to do reinstall of windows

Partition 2 31gb
-Documents and all files that are changed frequently enough
Makes it easy to backup all important files

Partition 3 172gb
-Storage. All archives and video files go here.

Drive 2 - 80gb
Partition 1 30gb in FAT32
-Unused at the time, wanted to set up another Windows or Linux
-All programs that would be installed for that version of OS

Partition 2 - 48Gb
-Music only. No particular reason for doing so.

[smuncky]

320gb drive, 4 partitions

partition 1 - 63 gb
-windows xp/program files/some music/documents

partition 2 - 156 gb
-music only

partition 3 - 48.8 gb
-games only

partition 4 - 29.3 gb
-movie downloads (dvds mostly)

[Kaitlyn]

320gb drive, 4 partitions

partition 1 - 63 gb
-windows xp/program files/some music/documents

partition 2 - 156 gb
-music only

partition 3 - 48.8 gb
-games only

partition 4 - 29.3 gb
-movie downloads (dvds mostly)

DVDs mostly on a 30GB drive!? BAH!

[ineedaname]

I don't see a point to having more than 2 partitions on a disk ever.

With a single drive Keeping windows on one partion makes sense. On the other hand adding needless partitions will make you end up losing space to the partitioning. It also makes things slower when you move things from partition to partition.

I have 2 drives one 80gb raptor which i keep windows on and a second drive for files.

Sometimes i see some people going partition crazy and it boggles me why they do it. That's what folders are for.

Unless you're using it for a seperate os install or for a mac there's really no point.

[bionicbadger]

1 500gb partition for everything.

[board123]

1 500gb partition for everything.

That's just asking for trouble unless you're frequently backing up your stuff elsewhere.

[sxz]

Desktop 200GB: [C:] System and Apps 60GB [D:] Everything Else 140GB
Laptop 120GB: [C:] System and Apps 60GB [D:] Everything Else 60GB
External 500GB: [E:] Data Backup 380GB [F:] Desktop Backup 60GB [G:] Laptop Backup 60GB

Both [D:] partitions and [E:] are synced and everything else is as listed.

[ct027]

Desktop:
Drive 1:
Partition 1 (20GB): XP & Programs
Partition 2 (20GB): Music and Pictures

Drive 2:
Partition 1 (40GB): All archived files including music and pictures

Drive 3 (External, which I don't have yet)
Partition 1 ( ? ) : Backup of Drive 2

Laptop
Drive 1:
Partition 1 (20GB): XP and Programs
Partition 2 (30GB): Vista and Programs
Partition 3 (20GB): Music, photos and other files

[magical]

That's just asking for trouble unless you're frequently backing up your stuff elsewhere.

Wow ... never heard that partitioning your hard drive decreases drive MTBF ratings ...

I'm always impressed what I learn off these forums....

reality check, partitioning hard drives unless you plan on installing multiple operating systems is kinda useless these days ... even if you have a critical crash your more than likely going to want to re-install your software anyways .....

If you want a real solution get another hard drive and run a raid-1 setup ...