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- From: ogil@quads.uchicago.edu (Brian W. Ogilvie)
- Subject: Partitioning 40 Mb hard disk--any reason to?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.230205.26323@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Summary: Stop laughing!
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- Organization: Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:02:05 GMT
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- Greetings. Forgive me if this is a silly question...
-
- Is there any good reason to partition a small (40 Mb) hard
- disk into smaller (say, 23 and 17 Mb) volumes?
-
- As I understand it, the minimum block size on volumes 32 Mb
- and smaller is 512 bytes, while above that it's 1 K and up.
- But for a thousand files, the average savings would be 256 K,
- which hardly seems worth the trouble of 2 partitions (if I
- _really_ need the space, I'll spring for an 80 Mb drive). So
- are there any other reasons for two partitions? Ease of
- backup? Greater data security? What portion of hard drive
- crashes would affect only one volume on such a setup?
-
- Reply by email or post if you think that thousands of people
- in the whole civilized world (as Pnews tells me) will be
- interested.
-
- Perhaps this should go onto the FAQ list?
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