200 gb hdd partitions

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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I'm talking about fat, not ntfs. It is fat that decreases in performance 
after about 40 GB. It is not because of journaling V.S. no journaling. It 
has to do with the way that the filesystem is organized.
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Why the decrease in performance after 40GB, I thought ntfs was
journeled..but FAT wasn't...i could be 100% wrong on this...but just
interested in knowing why?

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Sina

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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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> 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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