[Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE

Mon May 31 14:55:04 EDT 2010

Robert,

Are you talking about partitioning a drive or having more than 1? Trouble with partitioning is that if the hard drive goes bad you lost eveyrthing no matter how many partitions you have..If it is good but lost operating system you may have to repartition so all data lost anyway..

Was just wondering?

Loren   WA7SKT

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> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:48:30 -0400
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE
> 
> I have recently descovered another reason (besides multiple OS's) to have 
> two or more (instead of one) drives, one for the OS and programs and the 
> other mainly for data.  It's not a situation most of you are apt to encounter 
> but I have currently some 35+ GB (and growing) of scanned manuals and 
> photographs on our main machine.  And a sizable subset on my laptop for use away 
> from home.  I back up some of the drives on our three machines to an NAS drive 
> separate from any of the computers.  I don't know how many unique ways to 
> back up drives one might define but two could be called drive imaging and 
> straight file copy.  For reasons I won't take the space to define, the first is 
> or may be generally better or best for an OS drive and the second (if you 
> add the capability to not re-copy files that have not changed) is more 
> efficient (quicker after the initial copy is made) for data drives if the data is 
> in many relatively small files (such as TIF, PDF or JPG).  So I am currently 
> sorry that I did not partition the one drive in my laptop last time I 
> reinstalled everthing..  
> 
> In a message dated 5/31/2010 1:17:55 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> lmoline at hotmail.com writes: 
> > Gene,
> > 
> > I see no reason to make more than 1 partition unless you have 2 different 
> > operating systems to boot from..
> > 
> > 
> > Loren   WA7SKT
> > 
> > Member: ARRL and Pacific Northwest VHF Society
> > Member: Hearsat Satellite Monitoring Group ( www.hearsat.org )
> > Location: CN86cx                                                           
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> >                           
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >From: erastber at tampabay.rr.com
> > >To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net; kc8cpw at gmail.com
> > >Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:13:51 -0400
> > >Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE
> > >
> > >I was able to get SeaMonkey installed on the laptop.
> > >
> > >However, the question remains is about the partitions on the HDD:
> > >
> > >Do I make one large partition or one small and the other with the rest of 
> > 
> > >the space?
> > >
> > >If I should use two partitions, what sizes should they be?
> > >
> > >TIA es 73
> > >Gene, WØQFC
> > >Spring Hill FL
> > >Lafayette Lodge #91 A.F. &A.M. 
> > >
> 
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