Partitions, how many is too many?

SouperComputer

for the past 1.5 years or so I have been running at least 6 partitions on my HD, sometimes 8. Every now and then I have a situation where the parition table dies and I have to perform reconstructive surgery on the HD. This has happend to me on SCSI, ATA and SATA devices.

just wondering if anybody has had similar experience or is this just co-incidence, for the fourth time!

Just last night, I had the extended parition go wollop on my 200GB drive. It was partitoned ad follows:

30Mb (primary fat16 for geexbox)
extended from thereon:

800MB FAT32 (win98)
10GB NTFS (Win2k)
6GB NTFS (XP)
6GB EXT2 (linux)
512mb linux swop
20GB FAT32 (workspace)
remainder was an NTFS network share

in any case, from now on ill run 4 partitions at most and use virtual PC or another HD for legacy OS

such a pain, the failure took the ENTIRE extended partition with it. Although, R-studio has been able to get all of if back, after many hours!

uberpixie

**** happens.

I have had the hard drive go tits up and need to be low level formatted. (could not do a straight format using win2k disk it was that poxed)

All I had was:
25 gig (NTFS) Win2k
8 gig (ext3) Linux
1 gig linux swap
25 gig (NTFS) games
20 gig (NTFS) assorted media

Never found a reason, just happened.

All you really can do is raid 1 or split stuff across a number of hard drives.....

SouperComputer

yea, such a pain in the nads.

quarryman

are those numbers right?

Mutant_Fruit

The number of partitions won't affect the HD's stability. You could have 70 1gb partitions if you wanted (but that'd just be stupid).