Create a second partition on the drive and the file is only waste 3kb's instead of 7kb. Thus a file only 1kb would eat up an 8kb unit due to the limited number per partition. See the drive had all these small units I think thats what it was called. Also this saved disk space as the size of the drives partition determined the size in KB of space that a file would take. Thus a partition could be used then to store data on the inner part of the disk while the outer part was saved for your OS and programs. Knowing that you didn't want data you was just storing to use up the fastest parts of the drive. There are also tools that lets you do this, like partition magic or hard disk manager.ΔΆ0778383 said:but why create a new partition? How does partitioning help better manage disk space?In the old days we learned that the outer edge of hard drives moves more data under the head. Just click the last partition, select EXTEND, and then select the remaining space. You should be able to "extend" the last partition to add the additional free space that is unmarked. On the other hand Ubuntu live disk boot will allow you to partition as you wish. Unhappily it took me a bit of digging to find that no more than three - and when you are done you cannot resize. More frustrating after that realization - I could not even resize the drives I had previously created nor could I add size to the existing drives from the unused space. When I returned to the drive in Management - I could not create a logical drive. I used three of the four, keeping the 4th in reserve (I thought). I partitioned an 8 terabyte HDD to have 4 roughly equivalent logical drives. 20778401 said:If you use the Disk Management approach - be aware that you are only allowed to place 3 logical drives on one physical drive.
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