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From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 00:00

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P_II_Man@Intel.com wrote in message <3664046D.4F3E@Intel.com>...
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Andy K wrote in message <73od90$3c2$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...

>> I personally think that it makes more sense today to have just one
>> large partition formatted with FAT32. Its just so much more convenient
>> over time and you dont suffer the waste of space that FAT16 produces
>> with very large partitions. It would only allow 2GB anyway.

> Have to disagree with you there Rod buddy.
> I installed a 6.4 to a few Pent II boxes and after a while when the
> get say half full or more they really start to drag thier arse big time.

Never seen anything like that.

> I used norton to defrag the things, but no real improvement there either...
> So I recomend to keep partition size to below 3 Gig.

I've done plenty over that size, no problem.

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From: "Rod Speed" <rspeed@dragnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Partitioning hard drive
Date: 1998/12/02
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