What are Drive Partitions?
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- Drive partitioning can give you greater flexibility with how you store your data. How does it work?
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C: Drive is always happier than D: drive
but the E: drive is always the happiest
O: drive is always surprised
I: Drive is indifferent. Same with T: drive.
lol i hate u
P: drive licks his eye.
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.
GParted FTW.
Linux, right?
I believe so
EXT4MASTERRACE
+Yahya Wessam (vbajs)
Yes, Linux.
+Yahya Wessam (vbajs) but not Linux only. u can put it on a flash drive and boot from it, allowing editing of any partition, instead of just the ones not being used by the OS.
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).
Okay , can I ask what should I delete and which I shouldn’t since I really don’t have anything I want to save , when they say data do they mean like videos or pictures or do they mean essential components of my device I mean I myself I don’t understand this whole thing ?!
@@sevgiamikertash6823 Not quite sure what you are asking, but data is any information on your storage device, may it be pictures, document or even programs, all that is data. But are you looking to reinstall an OS or just free up space on your computer?
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
how the fuck do you do that
Turned it upside down and luckily it didn't touch the internals and It only got in the IO ports in the front of the case. (Not using those for a while)
Wat
i mean the water splash
+Zilla Goodboy. Here's your cookie
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.
Omfg 💀
😱
Sounds like something went horribly wrong during the update! I’ve never heard of anything quite like that happening after an update!
On Linux it's stupidly easy to put your home directory on a separate partition
@@SFSAtlas the only downside is linux
Public Service Announcement:
Do NOT Google "short stroking!"
lol thx m8
You mean Bing it?
I just did
the partition related stuff come up lol
Who googled it because you said it? Be honest
You shouldn’t have said it-
Why tho ?
Linus, do you short stroke often?
that gross yo
KOLTON hennessey... killjoy
Or sexiest
josh vlogs 11 guys i dont even think this kid is trolling XD
lee cook wtf
"Where would we be without partitions in public bathrooms?"
That doesn't answer anything because the gaps between the doors are too frickin' wide!!
Im happy as long as they are wide enough to briefly lock eyes with passerbys
It's a question. Don't expect answers from it.
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.
I came here for the same exact reason lol.
@@melseven5294 and now im here for the same reason lol
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.
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!
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.
GParted bootable FTW - very useful in setting up multiboot
w00t. Gpart is the best.
Would you recommend this software for dual- or multibooting? or any other decent program?
Hehe, I always use GParted
It's the simplest program to use in changing partition sizes without entering the OS. It's also one of the few free methods of MOVING entire partitions, which can sometimes be useful. It is risky as if the power goes out, your best bet is to reformat.
@@vuraniute9571 fdisk
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.
@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.
0:29 Windows boot partition (the one that holds bootmgr) : *Am I a joke to you?*
Dual boot Ubuntu 14.04. That's why I do it.
Y u no 16.04?
+Guillermo Gonzalez lots of programs don't work with it currently
Guillermo Gonzalez Didn't work properly. Oddly enough the main program that I expected to work, the software center, didn't work properly.
Guillermo Gonzalez Plus I was working on a Digital Ocean server that was using 14.04, so I wanted to maintain parody.
Mikail Kraft +Piece Digital Studios Oooohhh. No bueno. Steam hasn't worked for me on 16.04 or 14.04, but I suspect that has something to do with my ancient laptop that I put Ubuntu on. It's 10 years old.
LOL "Short stroking"
Hey, it makes it last longer. XD
She always catches me on my short strokes~ you can't bullshit a bullshitter! (;
It makes access to your "data" faster *lennyface.jpg*
you might lose your data *lenny face*
😂😂😂
im reading a module for a class, and i was a bit confused. OMG YOU MADE IT SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND !! THANK YOU LINUS
Who do I talk to about bringing Windows 95 back?
back?
You know what's funny? My place of employment still uses Windows 95 for some of their machines (I've seen the boot screen.) Go UPS! :P
go to virtualbox, you can use your outdated software all you want.
2095
Amazon.com
the subtitles on youtube are so funny, they pick up Linus's Canadian accent. :)
Aomei partition assistant is a very versatile one,especially if you have multiple phisical drives and each of them split into multiple logical ones
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!
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:)
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.
lol the same
This video gets a thumbs up from me just for that amazing ending about bathrooms and square space! Linus, you are one hilarious guy!
Great content. Thank you for all you do. Much appreciated!
Anyone else happy he still says "zed" instead of "zee" xD
But why did he?
Lawrence because he is Canadian and only Americans say zee
@@quarantinecompute ah, I see. Thanks.
BurningSunModZ v2 yes
@ well yes but actually yes
Gparted
(on a USB drive obvsly)
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.
This man is literally my inspiration right now
Awesome channels🤘🏻🤘🏻
MiniTool Partition Wizard
i use this one too!!!
I passed my MTA exam in Database Fundamentals !!
congrats
Unfortunately
Are we supposed to give a shit?
+Daniel Allen just let him enjoy
But muuuuuuuuuuuuuum
0:06 "Personal Videos"
I LOVE THIS!
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.
Gparted is the best
(for me)
Me too
GParted!
GParted and diskpart, if the GUI DiskManagement can't help
gparted is the simplest and fastest partition manager I've used. my favourite one
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.
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?
Idk but did you ever figure this out?
Linus needs to upgrade his Ubuntu.
you guys are great! thanks again, and thanks for adding the sponsors at the end of the vids. keep going guys!
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.
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!
i know all about short stroking
rlyons23 oh my! X3
Bien Ahi Rey
There can be spanned and mirrored volumes too where volumes can have multiple underlying partitions across different disks.
That sponsor transition was PERFECT!
Once partitioning was no longer needed, I stopped using it.
Hello, please tell me why. I'm not a techy person. I bought a new laptop and wondering if I need to partition it. Thanks!
@@ranelmarinduque794 There isn't any reason to partition it because everything can be stored on one partition (usually called the C Drive). It is only necessary to do this if you want to install a second Operating System on the hard drive. It can be done for safety reasons, too. It reduces data loss should something happen to one of the partitions.
Do what suits your needs. Just because Chad said it was no longer needed, does not mean you can't or shouldn't do it. You might have a reason to do it. In fact, I partitioned mine a few weeks ago (I now have three partitions - A C drive, D Drive, and a G Drive).
Long story short - it isn't necessary, but you can do it if you have a reason to do it.
@@GreenTornado Wow! Big help! Thanks buddy.
@@ranelmarinduque794 You're welcome! 😃
thumbs up if you use MiniTool Partition Wizard
+Joti Smiri Here. Never looked back to Windows Disk Management or anything else again.
Here's a f*cking gold star
Yes
Love the windows version and the bootable version is an absolute life saver
This. Powerful, light weight and simple. Better than some other paid versions
thanks for the great videos! A nice way to cram some info in to the old brain rather than the constant text book reading.
This man is the master of sidestepping to the sponsor. Respect the hustle.
can you do how prossesors models works? like the HQ, K, L, U , etc.
this will be an interesting information for us. :3
search it up
have you ever heard of google...
the intel website has everything you can ask for.
Here's a fucking gold star
how Ignorants.... I know the info is in their website, just asking if HE can do a video about it.....
"how Ignorants" -Statement of a person who tries to call other people stupid
"Personal videos" I see what you did there
I always thought the D was non usable which explained why D always had more storage than C. This is why more logical, thanks
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 :)
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.
@lazycouch doge steal some from old laptops I scarped a desktop and a laptop and used some of its parts to get 2 hard drives and a free copy of windows 10 and ram which o replaced in my old rig with some corsair vegance lpx
Matthew Smith same robbed a pc with 500gb hdd, i5 and 2 sticks of ddr3 2gb ram and on top of that today 2 more sticks of ram, a few sata cables and another hdd
D: partion is sad... :(
wile C:\ is happy lol
Sean Oberg or a disappointed angel
:O
I could make fortunes with the number of times Linus uses air quotes
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.
He didn't even into the two main partition tables: GUID and MBR...#feelsbadman
don't you mean gpt?
Zaim Waqar I know this is old but GPT stands for GUID Partition Table
uhhuehuehuehue... you said short stroking
Hey I liked ur video. Great speech delivery and precisely described. :)
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.
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
why is this comment arayed like an email
@@abdulazizalabdulkareem1380 probably to make it easier to read - which it is !!! 🤔👌
Vote Parted & GParted!
Where would we be without partitions and public bathrooms? Dude, I fucking love linus so much
Ha! Finally something I know!! Imma watch it to see if i learn something new.
5th Not fast as possible title = What are drive partitions
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.
he didn't mean everyone as in E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E ... he just meant the majority ... sigh, why are you people so literal with phrases and stuff lol
You just red my mind 👍
Not everyone is on Windows, but everyone on Windows is using NTFS instead of FAT/FAT32/HFS/EXTx. You will see FAT on UEFI systems, but thats for the bootloader and not the OS.
In Mac OS X, the file system is called OS X Extended :v
Yeh same, I'm running Arch
'Short stroking' 😂😂😂😂😂. That's one thing I didn't expect at this time
Btrfs plus spare partitions on several drives in RAID 0 for better read and write speed, partitions are pretty useful.
I watch these more to test my own knowledge then anything else xD
anyone do that ?
Dual boot Win 10, Ubuntu and SteamOS
Dual = 2, I assume you mean tri boot
why would you use steam os? Ubuntu can run all of it's programs, and you have windows 10, which is a massive gaming platform.
Love you Linus!
Your videos are quite addictive
"Personal Videos"
Lul
0:17 garbage, the "section" didn't divide at the center point
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I was Damn sure of what's coming next when you said "what other kinda world I don't wanna imagine?" :D
My favorite partition tool?The one that let's me build it beautiful.
Why does everyone care so much about Zed vs Zee
Btw team Zed
I'm team zee
I'm team whatever I say
i'm team z
+DarxPhil everywhere but America says zed
I'm team "Zeta"
Did you just call us normal people?
Well, You Should.
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
It was like 8 years ago the last time I used partitions.
RAID drives made my life quite easier.
which version of RAID are you using?
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 2, RAID 3,
Thumbs up if you use EaseUS Partition Manager
"Short Stroking" (Ȍ ͜ʖȌ)
"i dont want to imagine a world without squarespace" god damn, now that's how you shout out to a sponsor ! lol
There one thing I’ve been pondering, can you take your hard drive or ssd and extend the primary partition with a removable storage device?(SD Card) (I have the hp stream with no room to update windows or anything else)
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.
I think that you can also partition drives for OS X... but the steps to do so will be different.
You can run Windows on an Apple machine by creating a new partition for it... Apple uses partitions for their recovery sector... I'm 99% certain this also applies to OS X
Sam Watson Yes, but the bits about configuring the OS for storage to it, not being able to move programs to it, and secret partitions are all wrong.
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
It's Linux. *Deal with it.* If Stallman was so smart he would had figured out how to get a community around GNU Hurd, instead he went unheard and is seen as a prolific and intelligent crazy man.
That aside, check out Ubuntu MATE as another beginner OS. It's like old Ubuntu, only without GNOME but it's MATE so it;s kind-of GNOME.
bluephreakr
Is this bait? Or are you genuinely an idiot?
The GNU team made around 90% of the OS, Linux is only the kernel.
Giving both linus and the GNU team equal credit is just the right thing to do.
Quentin1o2
It may be right, but honestly, in all the Linux commentary you've heard ever, how many people go out of their way to credit the GNU team?
GNU would get all of the credit if Hurd ever took off as an OS, guaranteed. But it did not. And Stallman is still quietly in the background. I respect the man, but I also know many people don't care about him as much as Torvalds, and that is something you'd need to realize too when talking to people about Linux. All people know about Linux is the system, not the kernel.
And to be honest, that kind of pisses me off. my OS is Ubuntu MATE, _not_ Linux, as you're right; Linux is the kernel. And most of the tools were made by the GNU team, Free Software Foundation, Novell, Red Hat and affiliates thereof. But _nobody cares about that._ Go on, try to talk to somebody about GNU / Linux. Say GNU to them and watch their eyes roll to the back of their head.
nahhhh, all about damn small Linux
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 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
no not zed its called zee, you are from canada!!!!
I know, American English is plaguing, ugh.
There's no room for u when it comes to Honor.
New American Fishkeeper *Honour
Honor*
Cubly I guess you've shown your true COLORs
What the hell is so wrong with "zee". Hm?
Canada m9
Helpful even after 5 years 🙏
You almost got me to visit squarespace, nice
This is a very poor explanation.
He's just doing it as fast as possible.
Dude I love cfdisk. It make easy to work with partitions
My partition management tool set includes a Ubuntu Live distro and a ready-to-use OS X installations, both on SD cards.
Thank youu this info help me a lot