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17 November 2001, 03:09
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Best partition size for OS 3.9?
Looks like my 30GB Maxtor can be use as one huge partition. Are there any drawbacks to doing so? Should I keep the Workbench partition seperate? I'm assuming disk utilities probably will have a problem with a 30GB partition, but your average graphics apps should be okay, right? Let me hear some suggestions on a partition scheme.
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17 November 2001, 03:23
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I'd suggest that you keep your workbench partition seperate since the Amiga filesystem is prone to getting read/write errors and you wouldn't want to get your workbench partition screwed.
I have no idea what good partition sizes would be btw. The most I've ever had on my Amiga is a 120mb HDD 
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17 November 2001, 03:48
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When I ran HDToolBox the default recommendation was 4 partitions of just over 7.2GB each. I figured on leaving Workbench on one 7GB partition and the rest of the drive as one large 23GB partition. I'll see how this works out for now.
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18 November 2001, 19:29
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I'd say that's frigging mroe than enough
The AmigaOS is compact, and in 7GB there's ample space for improvement. You'll never fill it
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22 November 2001, 04:30
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I decided to take your advie after thinking it through a bit. Since I will not be doing much with OS 3.9 itself, I decided that a smaller boot partition of 2GB, just to have ample breathing room would be more than enough. The rest of the drive will be for Toaster & Lightwave projects mainly.
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22 November 2001, 09:23
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heheyou could have used a partition with 250 megs and have plenty of room for WorkBench software
AmigaOS is nice and compact
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22 November 2001, 17:00
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Yep yep, kriz is right
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