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- From: Bertram.Moshier@f115.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Bertram Moshier)
- Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!uum1!kksys.com!tdkt!FredGate
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Partitioning Help
- Message-ID: <725780456.AA00880@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:24:17 -0600
- Lines: 47
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- -> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- -> Reply-To: jwh@citi.umich.edu
- ->
- -> 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
- -> Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
- ->
- -> ---
- -> * Origin: Dark Knight's Table - Usenet Gate: tdkt.kksys.com (1:282/3
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- James:
-
- I just repartitioned my 305MB HD. It is in the form of:
-
- 0 - 39MB - OS/2 GA (Currently Generally Available level)
- 40 - 79MB - OS/2 GA with service applied (if available)
- 80 - 119MB - Beta level of OS/2 (in this case 2.1 soon)
- 120 - 305MB - Data
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- When 2.1 becomes generally available, I'll install it in the 0 - 39MB
- partition. When service for 2.1 comes out, I'll put it in the 40 - 79MB
- partition. When the next beta after 2.1 comes out, I'll put it in the
- 80 to 119MB partition.
-
- All partitions are HPFS.
-
- Bert Moshier
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