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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: <1992Dec15.204609.29849@msc.cornell.edu>
- Originator: tommy@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <BzBAAD.114@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:46:09 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- From article <BzBAAD.114@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, by schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers):
- >>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 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 thing that suprised me here was that the SWAP partition is FAT, NOT
- > HPFS. In my experience, the swap file on a FAT drive is markedly slower
- > than on HPFS.
-
- The ONLY thing I put on the G: partition is the swap file. Multiple
- reasons:
- (1) Fragmentation is not a problem since it is the only file ==> fast
- (2) I don't care about the 8.3 limitation or extended attributes
- (3) Caching the OS/2 swapfile (HPFS) would be a waste of memory
- (4) All of the space is available, no overhead for HPFS
-
- In practice, don't perceive any performance hit using the FAT for swap.
-
- > Also, is the DOS compatability partition visible to OS/2 or is it hidden.
-
- OS/2 will see all of the partitions, DOS will only see the FAT partitions.
-
- > Also also, as an aside, Boot Manager allows you to set a extended
- > partition bootable, installable and the like, but when I tried to install
- > DOS 5.0 in it, it would not boot. I would just get garbage scolling across
- > the screen, and the machine would hang. Is this setup supposed to be
- > possible? The reason I ask, is your OS/2 partition is setup as an extended,
- > and it works. Does this not work for DOS as well?
-
- The OS/2 partition is setup as an extended partition and boots great.
-
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- Michael O. Thompson tommy@msc.cornell.edu
- Cornell University (607) 255-4714
-
- OS/2: For the few, the proud, the devoted!
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- Michael O. Thompson tommy@msc.cornell.edu
- Cornell University (607) 255-4714
-
- OS/2: For the few, the proud, the devoted!
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