🚀 go-pugleaf

I agree with making smaller partitions/drives. First 'initialize'
after boot take a long time when yo have the drive full.Let's say a
minute, with a p300,128 mem.Those that haven't experienced this just
haven't d/l enough programs.
I run one 5 gig for storage, but limit all others to 3g or less.
js


On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 18:45:01 +1100, "Rod Speed" <rspeed@dragnet.com.au>
wrote:

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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>...
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>>> 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.
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>Never seen anything like that.
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>> I used norton to defrag the things, but no real improvement there either...
>> So I recomend to keep partition size to below 3 Gig.
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>I've done plenty over that size, no problem.
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