Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:
I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn,
so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature,
expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need
another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies.. This is
also true if you copy between 2 SMB shares, even if none of them are
on the local machine, it's neat iand effective isn't it?
On 11/20/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007 9:19 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
<Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk
about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create
(at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and
a larger one for data.
I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction
of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB
on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external
drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so
nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to
keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows
software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its
location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate
it).
OK, so it depends on what you want to do under windows I guess...
the box I'm writing from is my main home computer, and has a 3G windows
system partition... it's doing fine!
Today I'ld probably make that 5G (this 3G partition dates back from feb
2005), but certainly not more than 10G
but then I only boot into windows for games and the occasional MS office
document that I absolutely *must* work on and that doesn't look normal
in open office.
if/when free space gets low, it's time for a ghost cleanup.
In fact this way you don't even need to defrag the system partition,
just ghost it! it's much faster (of course you want to defrag before
making images).
I really think a regular ghosting is a great MS hygiene habbit, and if
the partition is too big you'll be tempted to put useful stuff on it
BTW I wouldn't want to use software that needs 5G of free space
somewhere that I can't configure - that's seriously broken!
use another software, or if it's dual boot just burn your dvds in linux
enough rambling, just think about what you want to do with your windows
before deciding on your system partition size
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