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To: Ken Adams who wrote (47471)8/26/2005 9:58:03 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell   of 110626
 
What is the reason to partition a hard drive these days? I haven't done that since 3 or 4 computers ago.

For some reason this made me laugh because "in the old days" we used to partition 100 meg drives to run Netware. However, yes, there are two reasons I can think of to use partitions these days: 1) when running two operating systems (e.g. Windows for "normal" tasks and Linux for serving... although personally I prefer and used IIS with .net), and 2) if you have two hard drives where you want one to act as a mirror for the other (I *did* do that on my old server).

- Jeff
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