Partitions

Escaflowne001

I work with a tech that has the same sattus as me but is years behind me in knowledge. Recently we have started migrating from NT 4.0 to 2000 and he has built a server and he did not partition the drive. This real mad me mad. So we got into it over partitioning and really the only thing at the time I could come up with is that it is good practise.

Could someone tell me a few good resions why or why to to partition.

Special_k21

I have the same issue here at my current company. We are currently upgrading from NT to 2000. We are taking the new machines and making them one large partition. However, my laptop has 2 partitions which makes me more comfortable. Lets say that your OS has serious issues and you MUST reinstall. By having all your data on your second partition, you are able to retain all that data. You can just reinstall your c partition with no worries. There are a 1000 other reasons but this one actually happened to me recently.

ajs1976

Escaflowne001 wrote:

I work with a tech that has the same sattus as me but is years behind me in knowledge. Recently we have started migrating from NT 4.0 to 2000 and he has built a server and he did not partition the drive. This real mad me mad. So we got into it over partitioning and really the only thing at the time I could come up with is that it is good practise.

Could someone tell me a few good resions why or why to to partition.

One reason is security. you want to restrict access to your data. It is easier to restrict access to the data if the data is on a seperate partition. If you restrict the OS partition to much, the OS itself might not function properly.

In Windows you can add space to a non-system partition, but I don't think you can do that same to a system partition. (there might be 3rd party ways around it)