-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The NTFS filesystem does implement journaling. However, from what I hear, it is only partial journaling. - --- 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: "Jared Stofflett" <jared-stofflett@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:42 PM Subject: RE: 200 gb hdd partitions > 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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 at braille.uwo.ca > [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 at asmodean.net> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/AwUBQLFnQCenap9Jqj2wEQLAPQCfeyUn4JtWgldzh7CKrBhoYpCpBPoAoIUg 9QYnbNWppdvZ/ytPUv4qTH1d =CWsD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
