partitioning

Why should I partition my hard drive? Is there an advantage to make one for my OS files? How do I do it?

You should partition your drive if a) You want to boot more than one OS; b) You want to run a highly secure Internet server (you'll probably want OpenBSD for this).

>>2
Lurk moar.

>>1
Yes.

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to make tis troll useful, any problems with the idea that creating a, say 2 GiB partition for the Winblows swapfile ala Linux, will prevent fragmentation of the swapfile (pagefile)?
inb4 Get a real OS etc.

>>5
If fragmentation of your swapfile is a concern, you aren't using your computer properly. Windows boxes aren't meant to have uptimes greater than several hours, at most.

>>5
GiB
FAGGOT

>>5
I don't see why not. Still, it would be a lot better to put the page file on a different physical drive than the OS and the applications. As long as they are on the same drive, as soon as the system starts to swap heavily, it's all over. Fragmentation of the page file or not.

this is my setup on a 300GiB driver:

C: Windows files, system32 etc 20GB
D: Program files + Documents and Settings 80GB
G: Media (pr0n, movies, musics) 200GB

works for me but I do swap it around a bit depending on the space I have left. I doubt it increases the efficency at all but makes it easier to reinstall windows without losing shit

5 Here, most of my friends have only one hdd, and they run windows, and some have only 256megabytes of ram.
>>6
You seem to be misunderstanding fragmentation.  Rebooting doesn't magically defragment anything.

>>10
You seem to be misunderstanding fragmentation.  Rebooting doesn't magically defragment anything.
You seem to be misunderstanding swap files. Rebooting does delete those.

>>10
Realistically... it won't help much. A computer that still has only 256 MB of RAM is probably so slow and swaps so much that it really makes no difference. Let's say you save 10% of the time, which is ridiculously exaggerated. Well, so now it takes 9 seconds for an explorer window to open instead of 10, when the system is swapping. Awesome.

Just get more RAM or a new computer.

>>10
Yes, and unless your partition is not fragmented, you won't have contiguous space for the swapfile to be recreated without it automatically being fragmented, which solves ... nothing.
>>12
Accepted, but it isn't my PC, so I won't be buying RAM for it.