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- From: tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927)
- Subject: Re: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.233223.8809@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: tommy@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <1992Dec14.181811.23621@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:32:23 GMT
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- From article <1992Dec14.181811.23621@midway.uchicago.edu>, by pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers):
- > I want to partition my 200M disk as efficiently as possible, leaving
- > just enuf room on C: to hold the OS/2 system. What is the magic number?
- > I just ordered the DAP CD ROM, so I think I am about to re-install again.
- >
- > (In the most recent install [straight GA], we set it to 60 [with 140 as D:],
- > and after installing and running for awhile, there is still 28M
- > free on C: This is now essentially wasted space...)
-
- I'll jump on this since, IMHO, there are right and wrongs ways to partition
- the system. I've installed some 8 systems under the following "principle".
-
- Primary partition 1: 1 MB for Boot manager
- Primary partition 2: 30 MB FAT (C:) DOS compatibility partition
- Extended partition 1: 100 MB HPFS (D:) Main OS/2 boot partition and software.
- All commercial packages easy to restore
- here. Seldom backed up.
- Extended partition 2: 200 MB HPFS (E:) Main data/development partition. Gets
- backups regularly.
- Extended partition 3: 50 MB HPFS (F:) Test disk for installs of beta OS/2
- Extended partition 4: 20 MB FAT (G:) Swap partition. Set so swap never
- competes with user space. If 20 MB is
- not enough, you need more memory.
-
- The 50 MB was a bit tight on the last beta (fully configured), so I might
- steal 10 more from user space. The 100 on D: is just sufficient, but
- there is no penalty putting some commercial software up on E:. (Base is
- 20 MB, add 30 for toolkit, 15 for C, 30 for TCP/IP and wow!). The OS is
- getting so bloody big that I don't really want to back it up all the
- time. So, I have a utility that just grabs all the .INI files and backs
- them up at boot time (shiftrun is great). Normal backup of F: only.
-
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