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Gene E. Bloch
Flightless Bird
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:45:44 -0400, Death wrote:
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
> news:aepvy5h8ema1$.1ak2af74m4hw3$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On 17 Jul 2010 21:59:10 +0200, Death wrote:
>>
>>> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16 Jul 2010 21:28:41 +0200, Death wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I also partition mine into separate partitions for OS, Programs, and
>>>>>> Data.
>>>>>> Hold over from the old days. I definitely would recommend to
>>>>>> everybody that
>>>>>> you keep the data you create on a separate partition. Makes it very
>>>>>> easy to
>>>>>> backup all your important files and in my mind that partition is less
>>>>>> likely
>>>>>> to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me
.).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That data partition is not a backup.
>>>>> Any partition on a failing HDD is lost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any corruption of the OS partition also render the program partition
>>>>> useless.
>>>>
>>>> You should reread what Bill Bradshaw wrote.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure...what part of the data being on a separate partition makes it
>>> safer? less corruptable ? any better than a user folder?
>>
>> I said re *read* what he wrote. "Makes it very easy to backup all your
>> important files". Not that he's using it for a backup, but that it's easy
>> to back up. Got it yet?
>>
>
> It's not easier, moron.
> No easier than saving all your data into some user folder on the system
> partition using a directory stucture that organizes data into a user
> friendly hierarchy.
> Get that, moron?
> Backup-wise, copy-wise, finding-wise, it's no fuckin easier.
>
>> And here's what he said about corruptibility: "in my mind that partition
>> is
>> less likely to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me.)"
>>
>> What part of superstition (which he admitted by clear implication and with
>> a smiley) don't you understand?
>>
>
> It makes him an idiot, like yourself, if you think data partitions on the
> same HDD as the OS make any fucking sense what-so-ever.
> It's fuckin stupid, dumbass thinking.
> Like fuckin making a partition just for programmes...fuckin stupid.
>
> A data partition on a seperate HDD... that at least makes fuckin sense.
>
> Geez...hope you dummies don't get paid for this stupidity.
Ah, Death, your post speaks for itself.
Luckily for you, I don't plonk posters.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
> news:aepvy5h8ema1$.1ak2af74m4hw3$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On 17 Jul 2010 21:59:10 +0200, Death wrote:
>>
>>> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16 Jul 2010 21:28:41 +0200, Death wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bill Bradshaw wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I also partition mine into separate partitions for OS, Programs, and
>>>>>> Data.
>>>>>> Hold over from the old days. I definitely would recommend to
>>>>>> everybody that
>>>>>> you keep the data you create on a separate partition. Makes it very
>>>>>> easy to
>>>>>> backup all your important files and in my mind that partition is less
>>>>>> likely
>>>>>> to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me
.).>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That data partition is not a backup.
>>>>> Any partition on a failing HDD is lost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any corruption of the OS partition also render the program partition
>>>>> useless.
>>>>
>>>> You should reread what Bill Bradshaw wrote.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure...what part of the data being on a separate partition makes it
>>> safer? less corruptable ? any better than a user folder?
>>
>> I said re *read* what he wrote. "Makes it very easy to backup all your
>> important files". Not that he's using it for a backup, but that it's easy
>> to back up. Got it yet?
>>
>
> It's not easier, moron.
> No easier than saving all your data into some user folder on the system
> partition using a directory stucture that organizes data into a user
> friendly hierarchy.
> Get that, moron?
> Backup-wise, copy-wise, finding-wise, it's no fuckin easier.
>
>> And here's what he said about corruptibility: "in my mind that partition
>> is
>> less likely to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me
.)">>
>> What part of superstition (which he admitted by clear implication and with
>> a smiley) don't you understand?
>>
>
> It makes him an idiot, like yourself, if you think data partitions on the
> same HDD as the OS make any fucking sense what-so-ever.
> It's fuckin stupid, dumbass thinking.
> Like fuckin making a partition just for programmes...fuckin stupid.
>
> A data partition on a seperate HDD... that at least makes fuckin sense.
>
> Geez...hope you dummies don't get paid for this stupidity.
Ah, Death, your post speaks for itself.
Luckily for you, I don't plonk posters.
--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)