Re: FAT vs NTFS

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From: Rich Wood
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 00:00

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In <GJw4YBA6PUHzEwt$@moofware.demon.co.uk>,
Alan J Dalziel <alan@moofware.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Recently taken delivery of a shiny new dec pentium 166 with NT4, however
>the hard disk is formatted as FAT, is there any speed benefits of
>reformatting as NTFS??  What do you think?
I always recommend installing NT onto a FAT partition and everything
else onto NTFS for several reasons. If NT is on a FAT partition, you
can boot from a floppy disk to access it if there is a problem.
Everything else should go on NTFS for security reasons and for the
ability to use more efficient cluster sizes. For example, my news
spool took up over 70MB on a FAT partition, but under 3MB on an NTFS
partition.

Rich
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I can barely speak for myself, let alone anyone else.

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Date: 1997/03/09
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