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Advantage or disadvantage of partitioning disk?
c...@oblivion.world comp sys mac system In article <Nh9qb.305987$6C4.53807@pd7tw1no>, Steven Fisher <sdfis...@spamcop.net> wrote: Marc Heusser wrote: What is the recommended way to partition a 80GB disk for OSX? Recommended partitioning for any OSX disk is "don't bother." There is another take on this.

Hard Drive Partitioning
Andreas Friedrich Berendsen afberend...@yahoo.com.br microsoft public windows vista general Using Paragon Hard Disk Manager I can see the partitions of the first disk. And, most important, I can see the contents of the first partition, which is the boot partition. But I can not see the contents of the next three

partitioning disk with Promise Ultra66
Jake jdill...@NOSPAM.concentric.net comp os ms-windows nt setup hardware For the same reason copying from one physical disc to another is faster than from one partition to another on the same physical disc. Jake "Ringsing" <rings...@post2.tele.dk> wrote in message news:8p96ku$84v$1@news.inet.tele.dk.

NTFS to FAT32 - What Happened??
GB hard disk that is formatted into two 32 FAT drives. How do I make it one drive? What are the advantages of having 1 or 2 drives? The advantages and disadvantages depend on your personal preference. I prefer one large partition, some people prefer lots of smaller ones (I actually have to have more than one

Partitioning disk in XP
I do all disk partitioning with DFSee, which can be executed regardless what is booted. Adding a partition to BM in DFSee is very simple. my preference would be to use BM to start Suse, I'm not sure I have that option. if that's the case, where should I put Suse's boot loader, and how can I be sure that it's going

Help: How can I get the spfile out of ASM disk
Guy <G...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: i want to partition my 160GB disk (with RAID). What is the best partitioning schema when I want to install besides the w2k3 OS SQL Server, SharePoint services and virtual server 2005 R2? Thanks. This is all entirely up to you....partitions are going to help you organize

Partitioning disk drive
From a beginner in terminology here, what is a volume vs partition? Is a volume a separate disk? My concept is that a "volume" can be either a partition of a hard disk or another hard disk. In any case, it is mounted separately from the "VOLUME" containing the operating system. In the case of crashes, a partition

disk partition question
AU bit listserv os2-l Say you're installing OS/2 on a computer with a relatively large disk drive - 200M in this case. Is it better to configure the drive as one large partition, or is there some advantage to creating one smaller partition to hold the OS/2 system files and another partition for everything else?

Truecrypt 5.0 Released (now with system partition encryption)
Bernd Felsche ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au comp os linux misc gavron <c...@gavron.org> writes: JA wrote: I'm curious, what's the advantages or partitioning your disk with seperate /usr, /var, /boot and /home partitions? I run web and mail on mine and this last install I just dumped everthing on a single

Re-partitioning disk with mounted partitions ?
At the A:\> prompt type FDISK <Enter> and the FDISK partitioning program will start. Depending on the size of the hard disk you may be asked if you want to enable large disk support. Answer YES. - Choose option 3 "Delete partition or logical DOS Drive" and folow the prompts to delete the corrupted primary partition

Partitioning Disk arrays
sh4d03 sh4...@TPG.com.au alt comp microsoft windows DaveS wrote: I'm running Windows XP and would like to partition an external 300 Gb disk drive sitting on a USB port. However, I can't seems to find any help on how to do that. Can one of your good folks help me out, please. Dave Did the drive not come with any

Installation
Le corriger ainsi : [boot loader] timeout=33 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="disque 0 partition 1" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="disque 0 partition 2" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="disque 0 partition

Disk Defragmenter
What exactly do you mean by "the disk signature belongs to the boot-partition"? The disk signature is used (combined) in the creation of all partition signatures on the disk, if you have more than one partition the disk signature was used in (is part of) all the partition signatures. The three bytes at offsets

Partitioning disk with Fat32 using Fdisk
rnes...@augustmail.com fa netbsd bugs Number: 8386 Category: install Synopsis: Sysinst/mac68k does not update incore label after partitioning disk Confidential: However, rebooting the system and rerunning disklabel will show that the Apple Disk Partition Map was indeed updated by the sysinst/mac68k execution.

Advantage or disadvantage of partitioning disk?
I don't know why it was suddenly available, but I used it and tried to partition the drive into three equal sized volumes. Drive Setup started, telling me "Partitioning disk....". I knew it would take a long time to do it so I left it running all night. There was no change in the morning, so I left it run while at

Installation d'un 2eme XP
I doubt that you will get close to filling either partition up for some while yet, so disk performance will remain high. The best part about having smaller partitions is that they don't take so long to format. It is best to do the partitioning during the initial OS install as this saves having to mess with

Partitioning Disk
comMERCIALSPAMMERS.invalid> wrote: What is the recommended way to partition a 80GB disk for OSX? I remember from my Unix days that a full disk spells trouble (crashes and such). We used to have separate partitions for system, applications, swap and user space. (The assumption being that system is most stable in its

install/8386: Sysinst/mac68k does not update incore label after ...
If the drive has a disk manager (such as EZ-BIOS) installed then attempts to use FDISK can be silently but very thoroughly ignored and the partition will forever remain unchanged and unknown. If this could be happening, and if you are sure you don't need the disk manager then get ZAP or WIPE from the IBM hard drive

Windows files and partitions are lost after LINUX and LILO ...
Dave D...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support John - This is wrote down for the boot.ini file: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP 01" /noexecute=optin

Need Recommendation on Partitioning Disk
I have a Promise Ultra66 controller with a 22GB disk. I want to partition my disk, but Promise has a warning that they only support fdisk/format. I was thinking about using an alternative so that I wouldn't have to blow away my current installation. I'd appreciate anyone's experience with using partitioning