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Frank,
if you use DriveSpace3, partitions are not a problem they are an advantage.
With PartitionMagic and DS3 you create a 1 GB partition that has a 2 GB DS3
CVF (compression doubles your storage capacity). The partion will keep your
programs and/or data separated and protected. This way, if a program screws
up a partition, the other ones will not be affected. Remember DS3 fixes the
cluster limitation problem.
Daniel.
In a message dated 97-07-03 23:20:52 EDT, you write:
<< Snip, snip, snip . . .
>A sector is always 512 bytes. A common mistake people make is they
mistake
>clusters for sectors. The larger the clusters, the more sectors per
cluster.
> In uncompressed hard drives, the size of the clusters vary with the size
of
>the drive. This is because the number of clusters DOS and Windows 95 can
>allocate is 64K. After rereading the drive table in my Partition Magic
>manual, I can tell you 24K is not a valid cluster size.
>
>Drive Size MB Cluster size Ave. wasted space
>128 - 255 4KB 4%
>256 - 511 8KB 10%
>512 - 1,023 16KB 25%
>1,024 - 2,047 32KB 40%
>2,048 - 4,096 64KB 50%
>
>Most people buy drives larger than 1 GB and are unknowingly wasting 40% of
>their disk space. The only way you can reduce this waste is to make the
>drive's partitions smaller than 512 MB.
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Dan -
I used to live in a world of Partitions for the reason(s) you give
above, to reduce Stack Space [wasted or unused disc space caused by how DOS
and then Windows 95 FAT (File Allocation Tables) assigned file space]. Now
that I use Windows NT 4.0 and its NTFS (NT File System), I have little or
no Slack Space and only one Partition on one of my two hard drives.
On the other hand, De-Fragmenting that hard drive is not as well done,
so there is a tradeoff.
-- Frank :-)
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