| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
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What is the advantage of partitioning a hard disk? Other than having
one small partition for Workbench with the old file system? Thanks.
Mitch
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| 2654.1 | My thoughts... | LOWLIF::DAVIS | That's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE! | Mon Jun 19 1989 00:41 | 19 |
Well, here are some random thoughts on the subject:
1) The "logical" disks that partitioning creates allows you some flexibility
when it comes to backup/restore operations. If you have one partition for
Workbench and utilities that you really don't change much, you don't have
to back it up except when you do change it majorly. If you have another
partition for program development that you wanted backed up every day or
two you could just backup that partition.
2) Related to the scenario above, your mostly "read-only" partition of
Workbench and utils would not ever get fragmented, so overall performance
would remain good. You could defragment the heavily used partitions much
quicker.
3) It makes it easier to organize your files. Well, directories would do
the same thing in this respect I guess.
That's all I can come up with on the fly, what are other advantages and
disadvantages?????
...richard
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| 2654.2 | Two more... | FRAMBO::BALZER | Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029 | Mon Jun 19 1989 07:35 | 11 |
Well I can think of one or two more...
4) If ya fry one partition by zapping it's bitmap, etc. you don't
have to restore that much data.
5) Did you ever back up a 220MB HD to floppies??? :-)
It's much more convinient to handle data in the 20 MB range.
regards,
<CB>
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| 2654.3 | Better apparent performance | WJG::GUINEAU | Mon Jun 19 1989 09:00 | 5 | |
Also, I believe a partition will *appear* to be slightly faster since it will have all it's files scattered over a smaller portion of the whole disk (there was a rathole in here somewhere on this very subject). JOhn | |||||