"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
Richard Crowley wrote:
"straightnut" wrote ...
The reason I'm considering partitioning is the
following article that I read that made sense, not only
to possibly improve performance, but to organize my
drives in a way that makes defragging and backups
easier.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may0...pcmusician.htm
The article admits in the very first paragraph that is
was virtually out of date when it was written almost 3
years ago.
Do you subscribe to computer magazines for musical
advice?
I can't think of ANY valid reason to partition discs.
Particularly ones that are currently in use. You're just
asking for trouble with NO known advantage. Dunno why
anyone is still doing
this?
So if you overflow one fileystem it doesn't interfere
with everyone else's disk or with the OS disk in a shared
system? --scott
By overflow do you mean fill the disk, or do you mean exhaust the bounds of
the file system?
No matter which, XP has a quota system that you can use to keep from
overflowing the bounds.