🚀 go-pugleaf

You had your chance to be intelligent!!! Now shut up, because I'm not
interested in what you have to say, which as I look below is just more of
that bullshitese you speak.

Rod Speed wrote in message ...
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>Todd <Post_to_group_only@nospam.com> wrote in
>message news:rs87nflmh9757@corp.supernews.com...
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>> (A quick recap) What the people using multiple partitions are doing
>> is *simulating* multiple single partitioned drives just like your setup.
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>Not simulating so much, just a different way
>to get 3 partitions with a single hard drive.
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>> The fact that you normally don't delete from drives
>> D and E is the reason only drive C is fragmented.
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>He said quite clearly that the C drive ISNT fragmented. So the
>claim is a complete dud on fragmentation that requires defragging.
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>> Also when you move the stuff from C to D as keepers,
>> you normally do that soon after you download the stuff
>> so, your pulling it off the top of the drive (FAT), thus
>> reducing the amount of fragmentation to C.
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>Thats a gross over simplification too when you normally only save
>a small subset of what ends up on the C drive when browsing etc.
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>> This is exactly why some people *are* using
>> partitions besides the use of multiple OS's.
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>Wota pity they were claiming that they do it to ensure
>that the fragmentation is restricted to a single partition
>and clearly with his system not one of the partitions
>is fragmented enough to warrant defragging.
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>> In addition to partitions, I myself use DoubleSpace to simulate
>> partitions and use it solely for the purpose of temporary files
>> (temp folder, temporary internet files, CDRW cache, etc.).
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>And most just get more hard drive now hard drive space
>is so cheap. And thats precisely what the original poster
>had done, so this other stuff about how to operate when
>strapped for hard drive space is a completely separate issue.
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>What was being discussed was how to partition a 12GB hard drive,
>with FAT32 Win9x being used, and whether there is anything to be
>gained by having multiple partitions on that drive or just one.
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>> I also benefit from compression of all the html files that
>> gets placed there automatically by IE. Since the DS drives
>> get purged occasionally, I never need to defrag them. I put
>> the DoubleSpace drives on before I installed anything else so
>> their already at the front of the drive for fastest access, another
>> simple fact some would dispute besides using DoubleSpace at all.
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>See above.
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>> Actually with my setup when I run defrag even now after 3 years
>> (1154 days ago) I still only have 1% fragmentation, so I always press
>> cancel. I might get concerned about it when it reaches 2% though. :)
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>Got absolutely nothing to do with what was being
>discussed, the advantages and disadvantages of one or
>multiple partitions on a 12GB FAT32 boot drive with Win9x.
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>> Since I do the housekeeping on the machine I use at work (single
>> drive with single partition) I know for a fact, nothing gets deleted
>> ever. By adding data to multiple databases and new file creation
>> only, I can tell you 7% fragmentation over 30 days is quite common.
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>Clearly a quite specialised situation. Nothing
>like what was being discussed either.
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>> I would hate it see what any of the unmaintenanced machines look
>> like. Too bad I'm not the comptroller, I'd change that real quick.
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>Just another kid who thinks he knows it all. An absolutely classic
>example of the old saying 'employ them while they are young, while
>they know everything' You might grow up a bit one day and find you dont.
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>> EmJay.. wrote in message <37C3C594.3007A932@ar.com.au>...
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>>> I would like to add my personal observations on fragmentation to
>>> this thread:- I have 3 hd's, all of which are using FAT32. C:=2.6Gb;
>>> D:=1.2Gb; E:=4.3Gb, all are single drives(no partitions).
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>>> C: drive is my main drive, o/s, prog files, temp storage of d/loaded
files
>>> etc. D: is my "keep stuff from internet" drive, and E: is my games
drive!
>>> Just did a quick Defrag check on each drive, and after 6mths+,
>>> C: is 1% fragmented,
>>> D: is 0% fragmented,
>>> E: is 0% fragmented,
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>>> Now as I am d/loading and moving between drives anything from
>>> 5-20mb a day, as well as deleting a fair bit of unwanted stuff, I must
>>> say that fragmentation on a single drive with no extra partitions on it
>>> will take some time to affect the performance of the system,yes?
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>Yes.
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