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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: Multiple Partitions on a Hard Drive?
- Message-ID: <wiegand.716074461@lido16>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Sep9.170842.7047@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: "world"
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:34:21 GMT
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- mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen) writes:
-
- >What are the advantages or disadvantages to having multiple partitions on a
- >hard drive? I intend to use only DOS, so I don't really need more than one,
- >but would it speed up disk operations if I split my 130 M drive in to two or
- >three partitions?
-
- >Thanks for any info.
-
- >Bill
-
- Using multiple partitions is somewhat more dsik-space efficient.
- Since DOS has a limit on the number of blocks on the disk it can address
- a bigger disk has to use bigger blocks. This means that small files
- use up alot of disk space (space is allocated in integer number of
- blocks). Partitioning your disk makes it look like multiple smaller
- disks.
-
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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