CHARLES ANGELICH -> DAVID DRUMMOND wrote:

 CA>>> You always refer to "new machines". Do you not realize
 CA>>> that new machines do _not_ outnumber machines in the
 CA>>> installed base of computers out there in use today?

 DD>> Yes, I forget that you live in the boonies.

 CA> Worse than that, I am now back in the Detroit area in Michigan
 CA> where we kill the weak and eat them. ;-)

All because they use older computers?

 DD>> Machines have been available without floppy drives for more
 DD>> than 4 years now...

 CA> Machines _without_ hardware are now the bleeding edge.
 CA> Interesting.

I'm not the one using the expression "bleeding edge". Do you
still use a machine with a 5.25" floppy drive?

The machine I'm sitting at does not have a floppy drive. It is not the
first of it's type to do so, it is three or four generations of
disketteless machine.

 DD>> [re Partition Magic]

 DD>>>> what do you do with your machines there?)

 CA>>> I use BootitNG to manage my multiboot, image backups, and
 CA>>> any requirements to repartition or resize existing
 CA>>> partitions. What do you use?

 DD>> I don't have mutliboot machines, I tend to have one OS per
 DD>> machine.

 CA> Chicken?

I can use two OSs simultaneously if I have them on different hardware.

 DD>> I don't make image backups, I just copy my data directories
 DD>> (usually to tape). DD> I find with MS based machines that
 DD>> if the OS dies, it has been decomposing for a while, and
 DD>> restoring an image backup is putting back a faulty system.

 CA> So basically if anything goes wrong you do a complete reinstall
 CA> and lose any/all tweaks configuration changes etc. that you had
 CA> added since the last (most recent) install? Also interesting.

Pretty much - if the OS has crapped itself, it has crapped itself. It
doesn't take that long to install and OS these days.

Saying all that, the only time we've installed an OS here at home is when
we've upgraded - we don't kill OSs.


 DD>> I haven't felt the need to resize partition in an awful
 DD>> long time...

 CA> Let me guess, you have one HUGE partition with everything on
 CA> it? LOL

On Linux I usually have a swap partition,and then the rest as one partition.

OS-X is the same.

On the Windows machines, it is all one partition.

I usually set up 2003 servers set up with a boot partition and a data
partition. The one we have at home is set up with the boot partition on one
drive and the data partition on a second.

I've found that having multiple partitions tend to lead to running out of
space on one or other of them while others never get anywhere near filled -
thus wasting space.

 CA> You certainly do march to your own drummer David Drummond.

Are you telling me that on a Windows workstation you have multiple partitions?

Why?

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regards

David

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