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- From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
- Subject: Partitioning Help
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:31:53 EST
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- I'm going to be getting a new machine with one large hard
- drive on it (400 meg). Can someone suggest optimal
- partioning strategies that I might use? I'm not interested
- in booting DOS so I don't need any FAT partitions. I
- would like to be able to run either the standard OS/2 or
- any beta version that comes along, but I don't want to have
- enormous chunks of disk space lying idle. I'm thinking about
- having one partition for standards OS/2, one for a beta
- version and one for my user data. If I go with this approach,
- how big should I make each system partition. Should the OS/2
- partitions be FAT or HPFS? Should each system partition
- contain it's own SWAPPER.DAT file or can the two systems
- share a common SWAPPER file located in the user partition.
- Any thoughts, comments, suggestions or experiences would
- be welcome.
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- James W. Howe internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
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