Tim: >> Have you seen Windows complain at boot up that you hadn't shut down >> properly, and it needs to check the drive? (Of course you did shut >> down properly, *it* screwed up doing so.) Then you have the fun of >> waiting for it to scan through one hell of a huge drive. More so if >> your computer likes to regularly screw up. Reindl Harald: > which does typically not happen Maybe not in your sheltered world, but it's an all too familiar message seen by scads of other people. >> Then there's drive fragmentation. Windows still seems to be horrid >> for that. I'd hate to have to wait for a 2 TB drive to defrag. Even >> if I wasn't watching the box, waiting for it to finish, because I >> wanted to use it, but left it overnight - it'd be at it all night > which has nothing to do with *a disk* larger than 1 TB > it's more depending on the partitions you create It has an awful lot to do with such large discs. What's the default partitioning for Windows? One partition that covers the entire drive. The next common scheme for pre-installed Windows, is one huge partition for Windows, and a small partition for recovery purposes. Which still leaves you with a huge partition to check when Windows regularly shoots itself in the foot. And don't try to tell me otherwise. In something like 18 years of observing all incarnations of Windows shooting itself in the foot, on brand new installs, on well maintained installs, etc., nobody can convince me that it's not unstable. I have never regretted abandoning it. > in context of Linux it doe snot matter at all The context was Windows users advising against large drives, because of "performance" issues. My counter was that Linux is different, and those are too very common drive-based time wasters with Windows. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
