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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Partitioning Help
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:00:17 GMT
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- In article <8rS=-VA@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe) writes:
-
- >> 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.
- >>
- >>
- >>
- >> James W. Howe internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
- >> University of Michigan uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
- >> Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
- >>
-
- I suggest 50MB min for each of the OS/2 boot partitions with the remaining
- disk space reserved for a user data partition. I have done almost exactly
- this configuration in several cases. The swap file can go in the user
- partition, both versions can happily use the same file. If you have 32MB RAM,
- as I do in several installations, then the swap file seems to never grow. We
- set the initial swap size to 1024 (if you set it any lower, it still defaults
- to 1024). Otherwise, the user partition allows ample room for the swap file
- to grow as needed. The 50MB min for the boot partitions needs to be
- explained a bit. If you add multiple fonts (and most of us can't really stop
- once we get started), and multiple bitmaps for the screen background (again,
- most of us have difficulty stopping at this once we get started), then 50MB
- can be a bit tight. If you stick only with the default fonts and bitmaps, and
- locate the swap file in the user partition, then the boot partitions can drop
- to about 45MB and still have a modest amount of room. Make all partitions
- HPFS.
-
- Long-winded, and a bit ranmbling, hope it helps
- --
- Regards,
- Robert Gammon
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