C: Drive is always happier than D: drive

Short stroking is massively underrated. If you need to boot from a mechanical drive, partitioning say 65gb of the start of the drive and installing the OS on that gives surprisingly good results. I have such a partition for a "safe" version of windows - with all the patches, spectre/meltdown mitigations, antivirus, office apps etc. I need for work and online banking etc. etc. It's not as fast as booting from my SSD but the overall experience is closer than you might think.

Some advice for guys who are partitioning your drives to have a separate storage volume outside of the OS partition, please note if you are doing a clean install of an OS (because something went wrong), wiping your HDD through the OS install wizard (the one that you use from booting to an OS disk) will wipe your entire drive. Yes I mean the entire drive will be wiped partition an all. I have learnt this the hard way when installing windows 7 on a partition thinking my other storage volume would have been okay (it was not).

I was considering to abandon the partition idea, when in a beautiful day, (after a windows 10 update) my C partition got entirely corrupted! Simply got a message like "disk boot failure". I pulled the HDD off, and connected to another windows computer, to recover some data, and surprise: the C partition was blank and couldn't be read... Yep, no restore point, no recovery disk could save me... Fortunately, I had 99% of my data on my beloved D partition (which I also have an external backup). I also had I full image backup of my C partition, so I could successfully recover it. So, from now on, I'll keep advocating for the partition strategy.

GParted FTW.

Thanks for this video ^_^ i'm currently studying for my CompTia A+ exam and I really just did not understand partitions. Now I understand way better and appreciate this useful info!

Just splashed water on my PC 2 hours ago, and it's back up and running, and this is the first video I'll watch since I saved it from certain destruction

Public Service Announcement: Do NOT Google "short stroking!"

It's always a good idea to isolate the beginning of the drive from the rest, even with a slave drive you could completely isolate your swap file, just enough for what it needs and you know it can it can never get fragmented.

"Where would we be without partitions in public bathrooms?" That doesn't answer anything because the gaps between the doors are too frickin' wide!!

Linus, do you short stroke often?

In the past PCs were so expensive that it was necessary specially so we could reinstall windows without messing our files. Windows was unstable back then also. For partitioning, resizing partitions on the fly and cloning partitions I use MiniTool Partition Wizard. Incredibly fast and I never had problems like cloned Windows partitions that didn't boot.

Who do I talk to about bringing Windows 95 back?

Thank you for this video. I’m in college for IT. Majoring in Cyber Security and Minoring in Programming. Right now I am going over Partitioning such as GPT, MBR, Logical Partitions, Extended and what not. This helped me understand it. I am a computer geek but this is the only subject, for some reason, that has kicked my ass. Thank you, Linus.

4:26 i was REALLY hoping this would be the squarespace sponsor spot. It wouldve been the all time best transition Linus has ever done.

im reading a module for a class, and i was a bit confused. OMG YOU MADE IT SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND !! THANK YOU LINUS

the subtitles on youtube are so funny, they pick up Linus's Canadian accent. :)

I feel like you forgot to mention that partitioning is used in cloning, data recovery, logical volume management (LVM), partitioning can give greater flexibility for creating snapshots, adding/removing physical media to the partition, spanning a partition(s) across multiple physical devices, resizing for data storage (shrinking), resizing for data expansion, and various other storage schemes which are required in computing. I don't believe partitioning is a thing of the past, and only for those who want separate containers for things. This may apply to the Windows Centric Home Users but not anywhere else in my opinion, as the need for Disk Partitioning is alive in the Non-Windows Centric Technical/Forensic community as well as server space everywhere:)

@techquickie Linux, Mac and BSD handle file systems differently. Instead of showing up as separate drives (C:\ D:\ etc...) they show up as folders within the same file system, this is because they use mount points. e.g. plugging a USB drive called "MemStick" would show up as something like "/media/(username)/MemStick" instead of E:\ like in Windows. This allows you to treat multiple partitions, even those on different drives and different file-systems as a single directory structure. A huge benefit to this is that you can have /home on different drive so that all user settings and files are separate from the OS whilst it still appearing to be a single drive. A popular configuration is having the OS and applications on an SSD and all user data on a high capacity HDD.

Aomei partition assistant is a very versatile one,especially if you have multiple phisical drives and each of them split into multiple logical ones

LOL "Short stroking"

I'm so used to Linus using that tone of voice at 4:27 for sponsors that I thought it was a segue into a sponsor spot... and then he kept talking about partitions lol.

you guys are great! thanks again, and thanks for adding the sponsors at the end of the vids. keep going guys!

This video gets a thumbs up from me just for that amazing ending about bathrooms and square space! Linus, you are one hilarious guy!

0:29 Windows boot partition (the one that holds bootmgr) : *Am I a joke to you?*

GParted bootable FTW - very useful in setting up multiboot

I partitioned my drive to dual boot Windows 7 & 10. I still use 7 for everything but I installed 10 as well just because I wanted to be able to use PS4 remote play. Works like a dream!

This man is literally my inspiration right now Awesome channels🤘🏻🤘🏻

Hi Team, thanks for the info. So the question I have is that I am currently still running as MBR and I noticed that the MBR size is used at 34MB and I have space for 500MB. So should I reduce the size limit as it appears 500MB is not needed. If I was to do this then I could use the space to then convert MBR to GPT and then update BIOS? Any thoughts?

Gparted (on a USB drive obvsly)

Great content. Thank you for all you do. Much appreciated!

gparted is the simplest and fastest partition manager I've used. my favourite one

Dual boot Ubuntu 14.04. That's why I do it.

GParted!

Moving programs around partitions are practical, just use soft link. For example, in windows, the "mklink" command. I've tested, it works. Only that the setup process is a little bit frustrating.

thanks for the great videos! A nice way to cram some info in to the old brain rather than the constant text book reading.

Gparted is the best (for me)

MiniTool Partition Wizard

When Linus says at 1:00 that every partition has its drive letter, it is true only for MS Windows. Other OSs, such as Mac OS X and GNU/LInux, mount volumes onto folders or directories.

I found the official SD formatting software is really good. Just recovered a USB drive that was set up to be a install disk for a OS. Those things keep getting so messed up that most partition software will only see them as a 148KB drive, even though they are 8GB. The SD formatting software cleaned this USB flash drive up like it was no thing. Got it back to the 7.4GB capacity that its 8GB listing equates to. I like placing a swap partition on each of my drives. I don't know that Modern desktop OSs know how to fully utilize multiple drives properly. The partitions are there though. Windows is set up to only use those partitioned spaces too. Moved some cables around a little bit ago. Could have sworn all I did was hook up a ps2 keyboard. Windows stated it couldn't find something it needed though and wanted re-installed. Even after I removed the keyboard.

Definitely Gparted. Works great when the regular partitioning software on windows doesn’t work or doesn’t have enough features for you. Great in Linux!

Anyone else happy he still says "zed" instead of "zee" xD

I always used to put the windows swap file on a dedicated partition to stop it fragmenting the drive constantly. was also good to put in progress torrents in there own compressed ntfs partition to save space.

This man is the master of sidestepping to the sponsor. Respect the hustle.

I passed my MTA exam in Database Fundamentals !!

Linus needs to upgrade his Ubuntu.

Your videos are quite addictive

0:06 "Personal Videos" I LOVE THIS!

can you do how prossesors models works? like the HQ, K, L, U , etc. this will be an interesting information for us. :3

Once partitioning was no longer needed, I stopped using it.

I have four physical drives. One is just for Windows. The other three drives are each partitioned in two. That way I can one partition just for games. Another for video editing etc. Partitions can save data, too. Years ago, I had one partition become corrupted, but the other two partitions were fine. I lost some data, but I didn't lose all of it.

Hey I liked ur video. Great speech delivery and precisely described. :)

Hey Linus, I'm curious about efficient storage, read/write time and block/file size. I'm thinking since sound/video files tend to be larger than text files, maybe I should have a separate partition with larger blocks for my photos and videos... would this make a significant difference? Cheers. Bill

I have my OS on a SSD and my games on a HDD. Most gaming clientd will detect the downloaded games if you ever happaned to reset your pc. So you don't need to redownload your games.

Ha! Finally something I know!! Imma watch it to see if i learn something new.

That sponsor transition was PERFECT!

"Personal videos" I see what you did there

thumbs up if you use MiniTool Partition Wizard

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a good partitioning software, I use it to rebuild MBR and other stuff like when I'm switching a USB drive from Mac compatibility back to Windows.

Helpful even after 5 years 🙏

D: partion is sad... :(

i know all about short stroking

Learned again a lot!! thanks

Btrfs plus spare partitions on several drives in RAID 0 for better read and write speed, partitions are pretty useful.

Vote Parted & GParted!

He didn't even into the two main partition tables: GUID and MBR...#feelsbadman

AOEMI Partition Assistant is the only free partition software that allowed me to resize my laptop partitions on my 1 hard drive, while the partitions had files in them, and not format the partitions :)

Currently on dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10 on a Crucial MX 200 500gb SSD. Partitioning gives you alot of flexibility if you know how to use it right.

I watch these more to test my own knowledge then anything else xD anyone do that ?

uhhuehuehuehue... you said short stroking

Great stuff!

Love you Linus!

Dual boot Win 10, Ubuntu and SteamOS

Did you just call us normal people? Well, You Should.

i just keep adding drives to my computer and leaving old ones in cause hard to sell, i got like 10 now lol, also windows does a surprisingly good job handling placing main directories on different drives, spreading things across drives can drastically up performance and smoothness especially keeping the os drive only to the os make a night day difference in responsiveness

There can be spanned and mirrored volumes too where volumes can have multiple underlying partitions across different disks.

Everyone on a windows PC? I'm running Linux Mint with Ext4, I have never owned a MAC, so I don't know what file system they run. But not everyone is on a windows PC.

5th Not fast as possible title = What are drive partitions

I'd love to see a follow up video about the reasons people will carve up the file system on *nix systems. Why have a separate /boot partition? Or /tmp? Or /var? That might be a little out of the scope of this channel, but still.

Good Video, small nitpick: Partitions don't always have drive letters. This is a windows-only thing - there is no drive letter in other OSes such as Linux. That said, there obviously are individual IDs for each partition

Wow, I wish you would at least start prefacing these with how they for Windows only. A lot of this information is misleading or straight up wrong when concerning other OSs.

Why does everyone care so much about Zed vs Zee Btw team Zed

I was Damn sure of what's coming next when you said "what other kinda world I don't wanna imagine?" :D

Thank youu this info help me a lot

0:17 garbage, the "section" didn't divide at the center point

1:52 Did you mean GNU/Linux? Linux is only the kernel, GNU is most of the operating system. You can rather call it GNU, since it's the biggest part of the complete OS. Also, ubuntu is a bad distro for absolute beginners : Mint for rookies : Xubuntu (Still ubuntu, but it's part of the learning curve) for intermediate users : Antergos (Arch but easily installed) for slightly advanced users : Arch for even more slightly advanced users : Gentoo for advanced users : Trisquel

Where would we be without partitions and public bathrooms? Dude, I fucking love linus so much

Data Storage Measurements Quickly Explained Depending on what partitioning software you use your drive sizes maybe shown in Mebibytes (2^x ie. binary) in stead of Megabytes (10^x ie. decimal), especially if it's linux based like PartedMagic. For example a 225 GB partition would have to be entered as 214577 MiB. But, to make things more confusing this naming standard isn't wildly adopted. Windows measures file and drive sizes in MiB (binary), but displays them with a "MB" (decimal) suffix. Meanwhile OS X uses actual MB's (10^x) for file and drive sizes in 10.6 and later. And in Linux you never know what you'll get depending on which software package you're using and which distro you have. Even still, each individual program (especially low level hard drive and data recovery related tools) on any OS could still potentially use a MB suffix while displaying sizes in MiB. Hard drive manufactures have always used decimal measurements (10^x) when labeling and marketing their hard drives. Which is the biggest reason why Windows says your 1TB hard drive is 932 MB (ahem, 932 MiB). If you're really picky or you really need your partitions to an exact size, you'll want to check what the program reports as the max size of your drive for a clue to if they are using decimal (10^x) or binary (2^x) measurements.

Thumbs up if you use EaseUS Partition Manager

"Personal Videos" Lul

I could make fortunes with the number of times Linus uses air quotes

You almost got me to visit squarespace, nice

"Short Stroking" (Ȍ ͜ʖȌ)

no not zed its called zee, you are from canada!!!!

i got wt to understand today, many thanks !

My partition management tool set includes a Ubuntu Live distro and a ready-to-use OS X installations, both on SD cards.

What the hell is so wrong with "zee". Hm?

This is a very poor explanation.

Hi, Linus! How databases work? What is the difference between databases and filesystems?

Nice information! Suggest me the best partitions sizes for 1tb ssd.