Partition strategy

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I have two HDDs, one of 80GB and other of 250GB. The latter was inadvertently re-partitioned with all my data in it.

Today I'll try to recover the data and I'll re-partition them in the following sequence:

• Recover and backup
• Re-partition using FDISK
• Restore

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I was reading about changing cluster size. I have about 100GB+ of video files (average 800MB each file I guess). It's worth making a partition with an increased cluster size for those videos? If yes, what would be a good size?



ATM my plan is:
The list below should be read as:
*Placement*: *type of data* [*Number of primary partitions or logical drives*]

• Outermost in disk: O/S and swapfile [two primaries]
• Second outermost: Games and Applications [two logical drives]
• Rest: Movies, Images, Temporary (for video-encoding), Installation files of applications, Personal data (including music). [to be defined]

There are two primaries and two extended, one of each in each HDD.



Please feel free to suggest modifications. I'll do the all the things (backup/partitions/restore) at my friend's place today from 20GMT.