Subject: RE: Virus protection and HD Partitioning
From: steve barnett (squivosauce@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 04:54:59 EDT
Partitions or no partitions?
Partitions are an ideal way of
a) separating OS programs, user programs and drivers from user files and
even maintainging separate drives for very different information types, uses
and so on...
b) like you mentioned, when you lost your incomplete file, the worst case
scenario is you lost your whole partition-- the other 425GB where left
intact.
I would have to say that partitioning, when it is done properly, allows a
much more versatile computer and has a cleaner and better performance than a
non-partitioned conputer. There is no lack of system stability with a
properly partitioned drive. I have a dual boot Linux/Windows Laptop with
80GB, partitioned into 4 drives with OS files for each in 2 partitions, and
about 55 GB leftover for my audio, video and image files. An organized and
versatile file system will save you plenty of heartbeats. Maybe even enough
for your next life!
Squivo
>From: John Wynne <jw@sensitive.free-online.co.uk>
>Reply-To: cec-conference@concordia.ca
>To: <cec-conference@concordia.ca>
>Subject: Virus protection and HD Partitioning
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:41:30 +0100
>
>I feel vaguely guilty posting a technical question, but I'm just wondering
>if people have opinions about two issues:
>
>1- Virus protection. I've been offered virus software protection Sophos
>free through my university's IT department. I've never used virus
>protection except for brief flirt with Norton's when strange things were
>happening, but although it said it found and dealt with lots of viruses it
>didn't solve the problem or make any difference to anything that I could
>detect. I don't have any specific reason to think I need virus protection
>now, but I have a vague feeling I should and the university also insists on
>Sophos being installed before joining the wireless network. Is Sophos (or
>other virus software) safe to use with ProTools, Final Cut and other
>demanding apps?
>
>2- Hard disk partitioning. I've been told that it's slightly safer NOT to
>partition a large drive because partitioning just increases the chances
>that
>something could go wrong. The only HD scare I've had recently was when I
>failed to close all files and eject the drive before disconnecting. In
>this
>case, the 500GB drive was partitioned into 4 and, if I recall correctly,
>only the partition which contained an open file at the time of
>disconnecting
>became inaccessible. I recovered all the data by running a slightly
>outdated version of Disk Utility (for some reason the version on my
>computer
>with OS 10.4 was not able to repair the partition but the version on my OS
>10.2.8 computer was.) So, in this case, if I hadn't been able to recover
>the damaged partition, at least I wouldn't have also lost everything on the
>other partitions. Partitions or no partitions?
>
>Thanks for any advice/opinions.
>
>John Wynne
>PS Of COURSE I had backups! ;-)
>
>
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