200 gb hdd partitions

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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You'll have to define what you mean by safe. If you mean is it safe as far 
as fat32 is concerned, yes but the performance will not be very good. You 
see the performance of fat32 degrades signifficantly as the size climbs over 
40 GB or so.

As for booting and the like, that really depends on your BIOS. Unless you 
have a newer BIOS, it won't recognize sizes over about 137.4 GB. This will 
cause problems when your system tries to find the files needed for system 
boot. In order for your system not to have this problem, it must have a BIOS 
that supports 48 bit addressing. If you recall back in the 90's when they 
had the 2 GB limit, this is the same problem. Most of the time, you can get 
a BIOS upgrade that will solve the problem.
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Subject: 200 gb hdd partitions


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> Speaking of partitions.  I have a 200 gb hdd which I'd like to format as 
> fat32 so that I can read/write to and from Linux
> and Windows.  Is it safe to partition such a large size as one partition 
> or should I break it down to smaller ones like
> perhaps 2 or 3 partitions for the whole drive?
>
> Thanks.
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