Partitioned drives

[Red Celt]

Anyone else give their disk partitions interesting names?

[devogue]

What's a disk partition?

How come Charlene has a wee flag?

Sexual favours, eh? Nudge, nudge!

[Bella Fortuna]

Anyone else give their disk partitions interesting names?

Is Harry's surname Palms, and that's where all the porn is? It's the only reasonable explanation for such a full drive.

[Red Celt]

What's a disk partition?

How come Charlene has a wee flag?

Sexual favours, eh? Nudge, nudge!

That's a Windows icon, showing that it's where Windows lives (boot partition). A partition is an area of a disk. Rather than 1 disk, 1 drive, you can split it up. It makes things more efficient. Well, it used to... old habits die hard.

And Bella, all of my porn is in a directory called "Ahem". It's an old private joke with online friends... and the habit has stuck.

edit: H contains all of my downloaded TV shows. I have a habit of not deleting things.

[rasetsu]

"Duh."

Is the Pope a Catholic? Does a black bear shit in the woods?

I have so many data stores, I've begun using names like"fuckifiknow18'.


Though a quick glance: Mendacity (thanks to Seth), Vedanta, Shì shì wú ài (my favorite Buddhist concept), ikiru michi (a favorite Japanese idiom, and short for 'korega watashi no ikiru michi' which is the all time number one Puffy Amiyumi single (nuff said), and Kore (after the cthonic goddess Persephone; it was a BSD box that fronted for windows CIF at first).

Those are the current interesting names. I eschew clever naming for certain things. My operating system partitions are usually XP or SYS, and PROG, with a double digit number indicating disk number and partition number. Many of my stores are external hard drives, so many have names descriptive of the specific piece of hardware so I can match them up even without labels. (e.g. WDC-USB, and HITACHI1 and HITACHI2, being 1 and 2 terabyte partitions of the Hitachi external; oddly enough, that's reverse of their actual number in the relevant partition table; I forget why.) The two parts of the main store on my file server have the names RW and NO, for read/write access and "no writing allowed" (by client machines). There's usually a TEMP partition, and now BACKUP1 and BACKUP2 (my operating systems are typically split between kernel land stuff and userland stuff ['PROG'], and these are on separate disks from the OS for regular scheduled backup of the system, one each). And I use fault tolerant stores like a banshee, so many internal stores are RAID 1 or 10, and will include the word RAID in the name.

That's off the top of my head. If I think of any interesting historical examples, I'll try to post them.

Machine names and aliases and nicknames is another interesting area of data namespaces, as well as programming language namespace philosophy (I dig on strategies for naming and partitioning the logical space covered by overloaded operators. Systems software was my specialization. Particularly operating systems, compilers, and language design and compilation mathematics.)

[rasetsu]

Anyone else give their disk partitions interesting names?

Is Harry's surname Palms, and that's where all the porn is? It's the only reasonable explanation for such a full drive.

Notice the tumescent red color as well.

[Red Celt]

Notice the tumescent red color as well.

I should probably get out of the habit of posting tumescent red things.

[Bella Fortuna]

Notice the tumescent red color as well.

I should probably get out of the habit of posting tumescent red things.

Don't you dare.

[amused]

Why is it that 'partitioning my drive' sounds filthy when said on this forum?

[SteveB]

Why is it that 'partitioning my drive' sounds filthy when said on this forum?

You mean you don't know?

[Bella Fortuna]

Why is it that 'partitioning my drive' sounds filthy when said on this forum?

I've got plenty of drive, ready for partitioning...

[SteveB]

Why is it that 'partitioning my drive' sounds filthy when said on this forum?

I've got plenty of drive, ready for partitioning...

Floppy dis...nvm..

[klr]

One of my friends has traditionally called one of his computers on his local network "Freddy", after Freddy Kruger.

[mistermack]

Why is it that 'partitioning my drive' sounds filthy when said on this forum?

I've got plenty of drive, ready for partitioning...

I'd be happy to slip my external into your USB?

[pcCoder]

I don't partition my system quite like I used to. I used to partition like this:

/boot
<swap>
/
/home
/storage

Where /home is user accounts location and and /storage is for mass stored items. Now I just keep everything under my ~/Files folder nicely organized and use a Makefile to keep everything backed up:

~/Files/archived/ - Archived/obsolete documents
~/Files/backup/ - Backup from user/system configuration directories using rsync
~/Files/documents/ - Documents, projects, etc
~/Files/scripts/ - Custom shell scripts
~/Files/services/ - Custom services and configuration files
~/Files/storage/ - Mass storage of files not organized into one of the above
~/Files/Makefile