The clustor size has to increase with fat32 once you go above 40 gb, and that makes it slower, ntfs is jurneled as far as I know but fat32 isn't. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:27 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: 200 gb hdd partitions Why the decrease in performance after 40GB, I thought ntfs was journeled..but FAT wasn't...i could be 100% wrong on this...but just interested in knowing why? Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Joseph C. Lininger Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:04 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: 200 gb hdd partitions -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You'll have to define what you mean by safe. If you mean is it safe as far as fat32 is concerned, yes but the performance will not be very good. You see the performance of fat32 degrades signifficantly as the size climbs over 40 GB or so. As for booting and the like, that really depends on your BIOS. Unless you have a newer BIOS, it won't recognize sizes over about 137.4 GB. This will cause problems when your system tries to find the files needed for system boot. In order for your system not to have this problem, it must have a BIOS that supports 48 bit addressing. If you recall back in the 90's when they had the 2 GB limit, this is the same problem. Most of the time, you can get a BIOS upgrade that will solve the problem. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup Mailing-list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 12:19 PM Subject: 200 gb hdd partitions > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Speaking of partitions. I have a 200 gb hdd which I'd like to format > as > fat32 so that I can read/write to and from Linux and Windows. Is it > safe to partition such a large size as one partition or should I break > it down to smaller ones like perhaps 2 or 3 partitions for the whole > drive? > > Thanks. > > - -- > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net All outgoing E-Mail is > PGP-signed so that you know it really came from me and not a virus. > Public key at: http://asmodean.net/raul-pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP > SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAsOsias0vKmIuNMcRAm0OAKCs3jIYPfvrFCRDLPogLgzl9vPXKwCfc14s > 9PTmmc4P2y/YM3nCFcKlZkk= > =ie0I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQLEt2yenap9Jqj2wEQKKQgCfSXoAfeg/IkVEtWfAcrOYedtMkRsAoJ2F yD4mdGegQYI1OGh/rP9SwyL0 =IzVk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
