Why would you partition a hard drive when folders exist???

It's kind of slow, isn't it?

>raid for gaming
but why?

I hate loading screens that much.

Good question, I wonder too and are too lazy to google.

Yes. I've seen this when mounting partitions for encryption/decryption, I guess you'd need them if you wanted more than 26 separately encrypted partitions

Raid10 doubles read speed.

That was the theory back in the day. Nowadays, many people have multiple physical drives. Not much point in partitioning anymore. Even when installing :*nix, just make your home partition on a separate drive.

Literally Windows will not mount more than 26 drives with letters. On some older versions you could mount up to 32 with some punctuation ASCII characters, like a paren. The real solution now is to use file system mount points. Just like in *nix systems, you mount drives/devices to directories on an existing, alphabetized drive.

Shows how stupid Microsoft's legacy stuff is. That's one example of many. I swear Windows is going to turn into Mac OSX in the near future, as an abortion of legacy crap on top of a *nix variant OS. Turns out Denis Richie was right this whole time about everything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Partitioning doesn't imply that you are going to use them all for the same purpose. What about the swap partition, or the EFI partition?

this, and backup for general files seems kinda stupid with the current resources and technologies available, if you lose your drive physically then that backup partition measure was worthless.

Partitioning isn't obsolete though, but it will pass as an standard for general end-users, because having more drives is way more efficient and nowadays you can find laptops equipped with an HDD and M2 already. Even if you only rely on one drive, internet speeds have become decent for moderate backups.

not worth taking away half your storage capacity though

Wow, it's like I'm really on /v/

Dual booting. I resize mine as soon as I am done installing Windows 10 because fragmentation eats your free space.

OP does have a point you know

Desktop hard drive firmware is optimized for localized access pattern. A folder can put the file anywhere. Partitions can keep related files together for faster access.

Also, partitions can be used for RAID. You don't have to RAID the entire disk.

what is fragmentation? I'm tech illiterate

No, you can't. The limit is 26. For more, you have to use volume mount (docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-2000-server/cc938934(v=technet.10)). The problem with volume mount is it won't show up on your main file explorer since it is treated as a folder. I partially fixed this using quick access feature. Not great but it works.

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What do you store on them?

>play around with filesystem
>fuck up seriously, nothing works anymore
>try to fix it
>now it's worse
>os can't even boot
>"fuck it, I'll reinstall the whole system..."
with separate /home, /etc, /var partition(s):
>"... and nothing more"
with everything on a single partition
>"... but first I'm gonna need to buy an external drive, boot up a liveusb system, backup all of my private files, configs, logs etc."

>Mostly anime
>Some anime/game OSTs
>Some weaboo music
>Random assortment of music
>Some guitar vids/tabs (already quit guitar a few years ago but whatever)
>Some pirated games (don't really store games anymore cause of Steam)
>Work

TLDR: 90% anime, 10% other shit

dual booting

It's when your files are (physically) scattered all around the hard drive platter, and not organized into nice sections, which is faster for the hard drive to read.

>That was the theory back in the day. Nowadays, many people have multiple physical drives.
You're not making any sense. If anything, people have less physical drives nowadays, since "people" nowadays mostly use laptops.

Partitioning is as relevant as ever, for backup purposes.

What do we have to do to get windows user agents blocked from Jow Forums. I'm just about fucking done with these braindead threads

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1 partition per drive

Because I can hide on my porn on drive f

20gb partition for windows
Rest goes to personal files and programs with the Windows user folder and program folder on that partition as well
That way if I ever need to reinstall It's a 10min ordeal

When I need a new partition I just buy a new drive.

for you

I never format when reinstalling Windows, from Windows 7, they always throw previous Windows into Windows.old folder. Nowadays, I always use one partition because of this reason

1 Boot partition, 1 BTRFS partition with a constantly changing number of subvolumes, which are just virtual partitions but better.

I have my music/photo libraries on a separate partition so it's easier to access them from any OS
The distros I've used don't like mounting the partition with the windows install on it

This, but I use LVM

Different file systems

LVM+LUKS, under that / btrfs (with subvolumes ofc) and /home xfs

Oh shit yeah, also a swap partition on my laptop, for hibernation

But they rewrote Mac OS X

>installing a OS to spinning rust
dude wtf

Find me an EFI firmware that supports btrfs and LVM, then find me a way to replace my current OEM EFI firmware with it.

Raid0 quadruples it.
There was a dude here who had 8 drives in raid 0

Neck yourself.

Is that good?

And I thought I was a data hoarder.

Scary

Was that the absolute madman with a bunch of striped SSDs?

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on windows it can prevent fragmentation of big programs that get updates often, that includes the os itself

Everything in one partition with "/" as the mount point. For backups I copy and paste my home folder to a flash drive or hard disk or whatever other storage I have laying around.

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KYS retard

I don’t understand

Lmao this.

He really doesn't.

In RAID0, if one drive is unreadable, all data stored on the array is effectively lost. This dumbass made a huge RAID0 array using huge drives, and one died.

Why are Wangblows users so fucking stupid. They all need to go back to

>tfw extending partition without backing the data up first
I'm going to have a heart attack

This. Should suggest it to gook moot

Nice job, ass lickers. You gave OP what he wanted and you delivered just as he wanted you to. Imbeciles.

>clicks everyone
fuck you

8 3TB Seagates. The M A D M A N

You're part of the group who got baited so don't think so highly of yourself dipshit.

I literally just came into this thread to post that. Saw your big ass post and wanted to tell you fuck you.

Oh no, people having fun talking about things. waa

Hey guys. I have a mini pc with 2 os sistems android and wind. So i want to delete the android partition and keep the wind. But i can't join to C disk. Its bloqued. Help?thk

You get a hardware failure and lose the affected partition. If you only have one, you've just lost your whole drive. If several, just the data in the affected one.

>I literally just came into this thread to post that. Saw your big ass post and wanted to tell you fuck you.
Damage control.

>Oh no, people having fun talking about things. waa
Have fun being baited, retard. Wait, that's a bit weak. Have fun being baited, ass licker.

most practical. separate OS from data, and create image of OS partition so you can quickly restore in case of disaster (virus, bad update, instability)

also a valid use

partitioning doesn't protect from hardware failure. it's one of those cases where all the eggs (data and programs) are in one basket.
always have an offline backup.

For a localized failure, yes. but you're right - redundant backups are always necesssary.

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