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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2776)	10/7/1998 7:45:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) of 14778

I see it as an organizational issue that has its roots in a backup strategy. Some argue that the harddrive works less with a partitioned drive..the head does not have to move as much. Some place the swap file on a separate partition for this reason. I will stay with harddrive organization. The head movement argurment is BS. true for multiple drives but not for partitioning. Data organization is THE KEY for any system. Backing up is another issue. How do you backup an 8.4 GB drive? Most removable media is 1 to 2 GB. I am not up on tapes but to my knowledge they do not approach 8 GB....at least not at a reasonable cost. If you isolate the OS in a small partition the backup options increase. Why?? Again data organization is the key. I can backup a 2 gig NTFS partition as easy a 8G NTFS parition. mutiple media swaps versus running multiple backups is a wash in my opinion. 6 one way, half dozen the other. Small OS paritions with windows have a disadvantage in that the OS continues to grow with installing software even if the software is installed elsewhere and you may run out of space on your OS parition. seen this happen many times because of windows. Its not a bad strategy but one should use some foresight. 500M windows parition won't cut in my environment for example. keeping it small will reduce time and media requirements for Drive Image. I don't think there is much use using convential backup apps with windows. drive image works too well. Backup works good for backing up my DATA. If I use 2+ partitions I assume tape backup software will allow unattended backups of the separate partitions....never had a system setup like that. That is my assumption too. We need confirmation from someone who knows. Certainly.... no problems here. Thats a gimme for all software I have seen. Certainly seagate backup exec, cheyenne backup, etc. Sean

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