200 gb hdd partitions

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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The NTFS filesystem does implement journaling. However, from what I hear, it 
is only partial journaling.
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> The clustor size has to increase with fat32 once you go above 40 gb, and
> that makes it slower, ntfs is jurneled as far as I know but fat32 isn't.
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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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> 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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