On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:19, Richard Bown wrote:
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 13:41 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 30 July 2006 13:33, Richard Bown wrote:
I'll try. If Murphy strikes and you lose a physical partition, for what ever reason, you lose any logical partitions on it. Also if you change distro you stand a much better chance that the new distro will accept the existing partition table and just format / & /usr. There's an old saying about putting too many eggs in one basket.
I hope that makes sense
No, it doesn't. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
In 20+ years of using well over 2 doz computers and probably 75 HD's, I have never lost a logical partition. I've lost entire drives... and that is usually the case but partitioning doesn't have anything to do with losses.
Older hard drives were smaller and far more reliable, I still have a could of 30MB drives that still work, pulled from either a 286 or early 386. I've only started to see a lot of failures of the 80GB recently, especially in hot weather. The new drives are not as reliable as the early HDs they spin faster and the data density is far higher and they are more fragile. What is it 300GB HDs available now, and all that flying around at 7800 rpm or faster. When the specs were written for the amount of physical partitions it was done when 100MB was a luxury, Any thing that has high speed moving parts is a recipe for Murphy to strike, and when its disk damage the more physical partitions the better you can at least move the head past the damaged sectors and if your lucky recover some data. However, Murphy's law states that the data you want will be in the bit that's bust.
As you said we will have to agree to disagree
Richard
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