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  • Offline neXus

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on: May 01, 2009, 15:12:09 PM
I got a 1TB Drive on the way and was wondering if anyone else has one.

- What should I partition it up with? I will be running windows 7 on it till it goes live and will buy it when it comes out too. Mainly wondering how I should split the drive up. One for Windows (how big?) one for programs, one for files and one for media?
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Reply #1 on: May 01, 2009, 16:43:51 PM
I have 4 1TB drives, none of them are used for the OS.

I have a 320GB hdd that hosts the OS and applications.
I then split 1 of the 1TB drives into 2 paritions; 1 of 5GB and the other of the remaining space. The 5GB partition is used as the windows swapfile partition.
The second and third disks are used for media storage and the fourth is used to backup an image of the OS drive and files from the other disks (as I see fit).
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Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 17:33:35 PM
do a partition to install ubuntu on if you run windows it is handy to acess windows to fix stuff when it f**ks up.
8.04 is really stable but the new one 9.04 has better hardware support. :) (install windows first and linux will make a boot option to which system you want to start)
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Reply #3 on: May 01, 2009, 18:53:19 PM
Formatting these drives takes a few good hours.If your planning in making these your boot drive and
plans on formatting  it during install then I suggest you use quick format or format it before hand.


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Reply #4 on: May 01, 2009, 22:03:57 PM
100GB nos
whateversleftGB for data.

Create the 1st partition on setup then use disk management in windeows to make the 2nd.

Nimrod is in the better ball park; 1hdd for nos, 1 for data & swapfile.
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Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 23:06:24 PM
Quote from: bear
do a partition to install ubuntu on if you run windows it is handy to acess windows to fix stuff when it f**ks up.
8.04 is really stable but the new one 9.04 has better hardware support. :) (install windows first and linux will make a boot option to which system you want to start)

Hate ubuntu sorry :P

Swap file space is an idea.

I would use my old one but it clicks and slowing my machine down so I know its not happy. Will have it as a second to get stuff off, I have another maxtor which has been dying for years and wont run as a main drive but works file for holding data in another machine and has done for years, just not fast enough any more.

So..

100Gb OS with good space for swap file and any utility bstuff.
x Amount for software
X Amount for Media
X Amount for work content
Use other as temp until settled keeping windows xp on it.
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Reply #6 on: May 01, 2009, 23:21:05 PM
Quote from: neXus
Quote from: bear
do a partition to install ubuntu on if you run windows it is handy to acess windows to fix stuff when it f**ks up.
8.04 is really stable but the new one 9.04 has better hardware support. :) (install windows first and linux will make a boot option to which system you want to start)

Hate ubuntu sorry :P

Swap file space is an idea.

I would use my old one but it clicks and slowing my machine down so I know its not happy. Will have it as a second to get stuff off, I have another maxtor which has been dying for years and wont run as a main drive but works file for holding data in another machine and has done for years, just not fast enough any more.

So..

100Gb OS with good space for swap file and any utility bstuff.
x Amount for software
X Amount for Media
X Amount for work content
Use other as temp until settled keeping windows xp on it.


No. 2 partitions, 1 for OS & programs ~100gb (or just double what you use now) and the rest data+swap.
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Reply #7 on: May 02, 2009, 00:16:40 AM
how much ram do you have ?

I havent run a swap file for years ! (always disabled it)
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Reply #8 on: May 02, 2009, 01:22:55 AM
4gb
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Reply #9 on: May 03, 2009, 01:32:35 AM
Worth shoving the internet cache files into a separate partition too. The combination can help prevent file fragmentation.
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Reply #10 on: May 03, 2009, 10:36:03 AM
Nexus, Ubuntu is fine I run it on two machines now and it is fine especially omn my my old P4 lappy which got zippier.
I did sugested  it as backup OS for ya though.
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Reply #11 on: May 03, 2009, 16:37:08 PM
have they fixed that 2004 bug in the touchpad driver yet - or does it still not work properly ?
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