[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 14:54 Canada/Eastern, Steven Rogers wrote:
>
>> Why?  unless you're dumping raw partitions for backup, there's no 
>> necessary relationship between what gets backed-up and partitions.
>
> No. But, if you're using a backup utility, such as Retrospect, for 
> regular incremental backups, it's easier to set it up volume by 
> volume, especially if you're not an experienced user or don't have IT 
> support staff to write a script for you.

??  If you can't figure out how to browse a file tree and pick the 
folders you want, then you sure don't have any business partitioning 
your disk.  I don't see how one could advocate creating disk partitions 
on the basis that its easier for a newbie than picking files from a 
list.

SR