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- From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
- Subject: Re: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:41:53 GMT
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- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
-
- > 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 have a 45MB partition for the OS/2 system files; this allows for Win 3.1
- support, plus fonts and other stuff; it seems kind of large right now,
- though (I haven't added any fonts or anything yet). The swapfile is sitting
- in a data partition (150MB), so it has ample room to grow. I have an 8MB
- OS/2 boot partition for doing CHKDSK and the like. It also contains useful
- apps from ftp-os2, so they're available in case the system partition or data
- partition goes down. (There is also an MS-DOS partition, but that is not of
- interest here.)
-
- --
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- Jack Tan Sattinger's Law:
- jahk@uiuc.edu It works better if you plug it in.
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