[Ham-Computers] PUPPY SeaMonkey= UPDATE

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Loren,

I was talking about partitioning the only available drive that most laptops 
have the space for.  I agree that if the machine has the physical space, 
multiple drives would be the way to go.

In a message dated 5/31/2010 2:03:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
lmoline at hotmail.com writes: 
> 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..
> >>

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