How to make a new partition?

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Shenan said:
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I am unsure where we disagreed. You expanded on the only technical
reason I could come up with for partitioning - you did not disagree
with it per se. I never mentioned backup here - but it was not
because I felt it should not be a matter of concern; perhaps I left
too much to assumption there
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Well, perhaps I misinterpreted your message, but as I read it, your main
reason for separating operating system and data was to facilitate
reinstallation if necessary. My first point was that the need for backup is
paramount and if a good backup scheme is in place, a separate partition
isn't needed to facilitate reinstallation.

My second point was that I felt that the main good reason for separating
operating system and data had nothing to do with facilitating
reinstallation, but was to facilitate your backup scheme, if that scheme was
a data-only backup, rather than a complete image of the drive.

I'm not sure that I've said anything different from what I did previously,
but perhaps the above will clarify where I thought we differed.

Matter of fact the very reason I added
the last part of the last sentence:
"... given the reason for the whole mess is non-hardware related and
whatever software issue that caused your reinstall did not include
deleting files from other drives. *grin* ..." implies that said
method is *not* foolproof nor should be relied upon.

While I appreciate the additional information you have added (which
may prevent misunderstanding in the future on said topic) - I do not
see as we had any disagreement here. You just took my explanation to
the next level - backing up data - which should always be in place,
partitioning or not.
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If I was wrong, and we actually agree, then great, I'm glad to hear it, and
I apologize for suggesting the contrary.
 
Ken

Having two drives rather than one is in effect partitioning.
Partitioning whether sub-dividing drives or by having more than one
drive has organisational benefits and can simplify taking backups and
routine maintenance. Compare the advantage of separate partitions
holding your Outlook Express current identity, with an archive
identity, with a dedicated operating system / programme partition with
putting all on a single drive. Mixing files which fragment rapidly with
ones that do not makes routine maintenance take much longer. Providing
the user has a third party partitioning tool where are the
disadvantages?

I am now lighting the blue touch paper and running like a bat out of
hell<g>!

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Regards.

Gerry
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Gerry said:
Having two drives rather than one is in effect partitioning.
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Although there are similarities, I don't really agree with that statement.
But I'll let it go for now, since it's essentially a side issue.

Partitioning whether sub-dividing drives or by having more than one
drive has organisational benefits and can simplify taking backups and
routine maintenance.
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Gerry, I wasn't arguing against having more than one partition, I was
explaining why my view of what its benefits are is different from Shenan's.

I don't want to go into all the reasons why one might have multiple
partitions or not, but my general view is that most people's partitioning
scheme should be based on their backup scheme. If, for example, you backup
by creating a clone or image on the entire drive, then a single partition
might be best. If, on the other hand, you backup only your data, then the
backup process is facilitated by having all data in a separate partition.

That's why I said, quoted below, "My second point was that I felt that the
main good reason for separating operating system and data had nothing to do
with facilitating reinstallation, but was to facilitate your backup scheme,
if that scheme was a data-only backup, rather than a complete image of the
drive."
 
OK Ken


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Regards.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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Why I started this this thread, is need for installing other operating system
to my machine. As I have understod, it needs own partition to not disturb
Windows.

(Yes, it is the penguin os)
 
Jere said:
Why I started this this thread, is need for installing other operating
system to my machine. As I have understod, it needs own partition to not
disturb Windows.

(Yes, it is the penguin os)
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The Distro will have a partitioning tool you can use to create a new
partition when you do the install......what distro are you looking at?
 
Jere said:
I'm looking at AGNULA/DeMuDi (Debian based) for music (audio) work.
I have installed it once in "clean" old machine and now 1 want to install
it to my new, much more faster, machine.
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if you look on this page:
http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/InstallCdRom
it tells you that the Install routine allows you te re-partition your
HDD....most Linux Distros have this fascility.
 
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