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In aus.computers Rod Speed <rodspeed@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> How can the single partition drive be filled, but the
>> the multiple partioned drive's c: still have room?

> It is theoretically possible due to the cluster size. With the
> multiple partitions having smaller clusters, less wasted space.

Fair enough, but that's usually only a few %.

>> If you have a 2nd partition for data, you would still keep
>> a backup, just in case the whole drive gets trashed, but
>> you wouldn't need to do anything during the actual reinstall.
> Sure, but its no harder to delete everything
> from the single partition except the data tree.

True, I was mainly talking about accidentally killing partition c though.
I suppose it's just as likely to kill the whole disk rather than one
partition, so yeah there's not much call for a data partition.

>> Personally, I keep my data on a separate drive, and backup to c:, so
>> I don't have a problem regardless of how the first drive is partitioned.
> It can make more sense to have a data tree on the boot drive and use
> the separate drive as a fast backup destination. The main boot drive is
> usually the highest performance drive and if your data is of any size,
> you will normally get rather better performance with it on the main drive.

Not for me, but I see your point.
I've got my narrow SCSI drive as C, and my wide SCSI drive as D, due to
their SCSI IDs and search order.  I used to have the SCSI search order
reversed in the BIOS, but this stuffed me around too much with LILO in
Linux, so I've set it up this way.  I've got the swap space and my games
on D, and that's all I use Windows for anyway, so it's not that bad.

> Maybe, but there is a lot to be said for using a proper
> backup app. Semi manual backups can bite, its very
> easy to forget something and its too late when its gone.

I'm a manual backup person (with xcopy, argh!), but it wouldn't be too
hard to configure to backup savegames too.

Agree most people should have theirs on C.  I would if I had one drive.
I really like the home directory system in unix, where all your personal
config and saved stuff goes under the one tree.  Very easy to manage.

Daniel.