I very please to see there is many people who use disk partitionning. My favorite way to partition a normal system is to use the following letters :
C:\ -> Maintenance System disk containing a OS for recovery and backup (It's a way to make a ghost equivalent without ghost). D:\ -> Production Operating System (The system your normally use) E:\ -> Program Files (Where I stock Binaries) F:\ (sometimes P:\) -> Documents and Settings (the place where the user store it's datas) S:\ -> SWAP (It's very good to have a dedicated swap partition exactly as Linux do) T:\ -> TEMP (Were there is most of temporary files) Z:\ -> CD-ROM If there is another CD-ROM I placed it on Y: and so on If there is some another peripheral like memory cards I used to place them between U:\ and X:\ Usually for development workstation source code are place on G:\; H:\ All machines I have installed like this worked well from years, This has been made for facilitates systems and datas backup, to prevent fragmentation, to have the ability to gain performance when you have a multidisk system by splitting IO. As where are Out of Topic don't hesitate to ask me more directly. Jimmy. -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de David Tubbs Envoyé : mardi 20 février 2007 19:54 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [ql-users] win98se I have been puzzled by the connection between inserting QLAY and huge discs. Qlay can be tucked away anywhere, even a memorystick. The handling of large discs by older PC's is not just a factor of MSDOS but many BIOS had limitations, I recall one (686 500Mhz) that saw no more than 15gig untill an overlay was installed - fine for the space but some MS proceedures didn't like it much. I too have allways been a multi disc/partitioner, my first computer - Newbrain - had double cassette drives. Then the QL standard was progs on mdv1 and data to mdv2. Which grew naturally to OS on C - Bill's sandpit in constant process of fragmenting. D for progs only E Data F swap/pagefile and storage of installation packages. Broadly only C and E need defragging from time to time. >. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/694 - Release Date: 20/02/2007 13:44 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
