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mattsell · 12 August 2005, 19:20

Hello I've got a IDE 4gb hard drive and I know I can create just one partition on it. But I'm wondering how best to set up the drive?

I have search on here and there doesn't seem any information, apart from one person saying that each partition is treated like a new drive and each takes 23kb of memory.

Also a thread from Amiga.org with the comment that you can in HDToolBox set the addbuffers to a a lower value someone (AmigaKit) recomends a setting of 1000. Any comments????

What i'm after is some information on how you set up your hard drives, for example, do you have a Workbench partition of 100mb, then create 4 other partitions of equal size.

Any comments welcome, even if its to say you don't have to worry about it! or anything else I need to know about.

12 August 2005, 19:20	#1
mattsell Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Wales Age: 47 Posts: 12	What size/number of partitions are best - partitioning 4gb hard drive Hello I've got a IDE 4gb hard drive and I know I can create just one partition on it. But I'm wondering how best to set up the drive? I have search on here and there doesn't seem any information, apart from one person saying that each partition is treated like a new drive and each takes 23kb of memory. Also a thread from Amiga.org with the comment that you can in HDToolBox set the addbuffers to a a lower value someone (AmigaKit) recomends a setting of 1000. Any comments???? What i'm after is some information on how you set up your hard drives, for example, do you have a Workbench partition of 100mb, then create 4 other partitions of equal size. Any comments welcome, even if its to say you don't have to worry about it! or anything else I need to know about. Last edited by mattsell; 12 August 2005 at 19:29.