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Title: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: RMK305 on April 26, 2008, 05:51:36 PM

I've  got a 4.3 gig hard drive setup in 4 partitions,  system, work, gamess and media with each one being 1 gig in size. I set them all up as 1 gig because I wasn't sure if OS3.9 would accept larger partitions without problems.

I'm starting to think 1 gig is overkill for a system partition with os 3.9 and would be better cutting it down to 500 meg and making the games 1.5 gig if it wont cause problems.

Just getting back into the Amiga. Do you think they could be sized better?

Thanks

Title: Re: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: rkauer on April 26, 2008, 08:44:16 PM

 When I used a 4.3Gb HD, back in the day, I had:

 Sys: 330Mb (clearly an overkill, 100Mb is more than enough)
 Work: 700Mb
 Games: 1.9Gb
 Other: approximately 1Gb (anims, music, photos, miscellaneous)
 Downloads: 400Mb (good for those apps and games you swear to put in the proper location some day)

 OS3.9 don't have partition size restrictions, like old 3.1 and less. Just be sure the Sys: partition is under the 4Gb barrier.

Title: Re: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: monami on April 26, 2008, 10:49:48 PM

what else do i have to have installed to be safe and have large-ish hard drives. i tried to do my best to read up on it but... i have idefix and os 3.9 at hand. the hard drive i want to use is 6.4gb but it isn't going to be a boot drive.

Title: Re: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: Tenacious on April 27, 2008, 12:12:01 AM

Whatever suits your needs is best.  I have two 4Gig HDs in an A3000.  These are some of the princles I tried to use.

I tried to keep all partions under 700MB so they can be backed up to CD.

I sized 3 of them 100MB to install different boot options, very flexible.

I avoid naming any of them "Work".  Too many install scripts are poorly behaved with a partion named "Work".

Some applications (YAM, Spitfire, iBrowse, etc) are always creating new files that can fragment a drive.  These always get their own partition to protect the more stable partitions.

In the case of iBrowse, I won't let it cache to a HD at all because it will eventually corrupt it.  Those files are sent to the ram drive and are deleted when powered OFF.  I've never suffered a corrupted HD since doing this.

I like having seperate partitions for APPS:, MyFiles: (music, photos, videos, etc), and  Archives:.

Its nice to have an empty 700 Meg partition to organise files there before writing them to CD.

I've had better luck and performance running emulated OSes on a seperate HD.

Finally, with two equal HDs, I can backup one to the other.

Hope some of this was useful.

Title: Re: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: Tenacious on April 27, 2008, 06:25:53 PM

Oops!

Title: Re: Good partition sizes for 4.3gig HD?
Post by: blobrana on April 27, 2008, 08:04:57 PM

Hum,
how about  creating a 100mb bootable partition for an emergency  WB, as well...