[plug] OT(?):Single Partition most secure - others wear out disks (beginner student question)

[alan howard]

On Friday 01 June 2001 21:42, daniel at iinet.net.au wrote:

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> Single Partition most secure -others wear out disks according to my
> lecturer and the text - I disagree & some support would be great(and
> references to quote), or to be put right.

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> ~extra partitioning forces smaller cluster sizes and thus more reads and
> writes to disk to extract the same amount of data - causing disk thrashing
> and (eventual early) disk wear with consequent less data safety through
> physical integrity - this is general, broad and not O/S specific~.
>
 
if this were true then small drives with vfat partitions must be very 
unrelaiable. also windows, which fragments by design, would also cause hd 
failure, and the act of using defrag should stuff the disk.
maybe they should all change to linux to save their hard disks. ! :-)
rgds
alan howard.