Partition size under Win98se...2000...XP...

[flexy]

say i have a 40Gig HD...and chose FAT32 as filesystem...

Any advice about partitioning my HD...is there any point in partitioning anyway ?

I usually always chose to have a system-partition (eg. 2 Gig) for Windows...and the other stuff is then on the other partition D: (and E: maybe, too)

The question is...somewhere i heard that there may be performance issues under WinXX as soon as a partition exceeds a certain size (i think it was 2 Gig)...because then Win would need longer to maintenance/access filesystem-tables... Meaning it would be adviced to have more (smaller) partitions than a huge one where all the apps are....

Any input on that ?


thank you

 

[Nothinman]

You have to partition, even if you only use 1 partition.

FAT is terribly slow and ineffecient compared to pretty much everything else out there.

But if you're stuck using Win9X you don't really have a choice, I seperate my OSes programs and data on to different physical disks but would use partitions if I only had 1 disk. ~4G for OS ~4G for programs (and that's being overly generous) and the rest to one big data drive. I currently have 1 64G FAT32 partition because I need to share the data between Linux and Win2K, the only noticably slow thing is defragging because the FAT is so huge, of course it's a SCSI 160 drive so normal use is fast =), so I just leave it fragmented to hell until I find a Linux program that'll defragment it while I sleep.