On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:20:54 -0800
Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:08, Chris Worley wrote:
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Off topic, as I seldom partition anything (unpartitioned drives perform best),
What impact do you believe partitioning has on disk performance? I can think of none.
Actually, there are some things you can do to improve performance. A
small partition limits the amount of head movement, but only when you
are accessing files from that partition. On the other side of the coin,
a small partition can become fragmented. While the Linux file systems
generally reduce fragmentation, when a partition starts to become full,
you get more fragmentation.
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Jerry Feldman