On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Adrian Smith wrote:
>on this subject, a question for whomever: i'm thinking it is a better
>thing to start with fdisk (or similar) and and blank drive and partition
>it up that way as opposed to using Partition Magic or something similar
>to slice & dice existing drives with data on them. i say "better" in
>regards to providing better performance. you folks think it makes a
>difference or not?? thanks for you input.
I think this depends a lot on what you do with the system. People that do
disk-intense work will definitely notice better performance with all
partitions straightened out. People that only do light stuff won't notice
much difference with the fast disks of these days.
Contrary to the 150ms disks that came in the old PC boxes. Who would have
dreamt then that 20Megs would be laughed at, someday!
Paul
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