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Article #83Re: Partitioning hard drive
From: Nick McKee
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 00:00
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In article <3666081f.223918092@news.intellisys.net>, Guamy <graflex@geocities.com> writes >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: > >> >>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. >> >> > What is the best Way to Partition a drive, and where can I download a copy From, Thanks. -- Nick McKee
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,acfe68ad5c135738 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 101457,acfe68ad5c135738 X-Google-Attributes: gid101457,public X-Google-Thread: 1082f9,acfe68ad5c135738 X-Google-Attributes: gid1082f9,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,acfe68ad5c135738 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: Nick McKee <Nick@whitsbury.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Partitioning hard drive Date: 1998/12/03 Message-ID: <zL5b8OAhGyZ2IwXm@whitsbury.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 418417901 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk:212.229.18.238 References: <73od90$3c2$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <73pnsr$3lp$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <3664046D.4F3E@Intel.com> <742r5p$vp3$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <3666081f.223918092@news.intellisys.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 912729148 nnrp-02:28083 NO-IDENT no-dns-yet.demon.co.uk:212.229.18.238 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop,alt.computer.workshop.live,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc