Partitioning

>making a partition for music, a separate partition for videos, and another separate partition for "programs"

that sounds fucking retarded

One for system
One for home
One for storage/everything else

Anything else and you're missing the point

>>60126666
>Partitioning disks to store media formats separately
>Who would have even thought of that? It's beyond retardiation.
>...
>anime
Oh, everythings sums up now.

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>>60126666
I don't bother, no point going to the effort of naming partitions if I can just as easily make directories, don't have 9001 drive letters to fuck around with, and if my content outgrows a directory.. Well.. It's not like I need to resize a partition or anything.

I'd be interested in compelling arguments if anyone has any..

>>60126666
See
>>60126734

Seriously. If you can do it with a folder, do it with a folder. The only exception is major storage shouldn't be on OS partitions.

If you have 2 braincells to rub together, SSD OS Disk (256 in my case) + Storage disk with everything on it.

I've also got a scratch disk for other things I want fast SSD access to.

>>60126734
>>60126705

I've read it's better for backups and HDD performance. Of course, the con is that it's more to manage now.

And there is some stuff I want to encrypt/ hide on this disk, while keeping other things open.

Also, my system is on a separate SSD, so this HDD is pure storage. That's why I'm even contemplating this. Would never be this granular on my system disk, of course.

>>60126666
Never install Windows on a partition larger than 100GB. Easier to do clean installs and backup if you keep it small. SO yeah, if your boot drive is larger then partition it. Other drives, meant for storage, no, let them have one partition.

>>60126837
can I split up my data and OS partitions after forgetting it in install?

>>60126834
Definitely not better for HDD performance.

For backups perhaps in that it allows disk image backups, but that's not what you want to be using for storage stuff..

Glad you've got disk separation between storage and OS at least.

If you're looking for encryption, I've always been a fan of truecrypt (now VeraCrypt) and vhdx files. You can mount them in Windows 8+ so they act like a real disk.

Tmp on sdc, storage on sdb, root on sda as well as boot. Maybe boot off an SD as mmc1 or somethng?

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>>60126834
Dont worry faggot, no one needs your 3tb hentai porn, no need to hide it

>>60126858
Yes, use GParted live (boot from a USB stick)
http://gparted.org/

I used to completely separate OS and storage, but am using the home directory since switching to linux.

what's the benefit of putting that on a separate disk?

>>60126961

I know how to partition, but how do I split up my data and OS so that windows knows what I want it to do?

>>60126972
I doubt you can without moving the data manually. If it's enough free space to move from the partition you plan to shrink to the one to grow then it works, if you just have one partition and also full, and want to create two, then you'll have to find something for temporary storage.

>>60126734
For me, its:

SDD: one for system
SDD: one for home
HDD: one for storage

If I had only one disk, then I would combine home and storage on a single partition with two /home and /storage top-level directories.

>>60126971
I don't even bother putting /home on a separate partition than /.

>>60126972
>>60126972

Cant you just install your apps in the data partiton, and make all your default paths for whatever go there?

>>60127161
And then when you run out of root file storage you have to chunk off /home to another disk or partition regardless. May as well do it proper the first time.

>>60129723
Why keep bulk data in /home though? Eventually it'll have to go on other drives, or in some kind of RAID array, or on a NAS, or what have you. You can mount that or symlink it to it from wherever.

Plus everything and its brother wants to dump its crap in /home. It's like Windows was in the 90s, everything making "My This" and "My That" in my documents. Unhide dot files and its already a cluttered mess right out of the box. Put your stuff somewhere you control - which means something not in the FHS, basically.