On Saturday, 22 September 2001, you wrote:

>  All very true -- in the world of FAT16.  FAT32 allows for so many
>more clusters per partition that cluster size is able to stay quite
>small.  (NTFS, which I prefer (especially in a business environment)
>uses an alternate allocation scheme so that cluster size is not an
>issue.)

It is correct. But, if the HD is to be used for video, then cluster
size doesn't really matter (video files are ~50-2000Mbytes). What
I suggest is (if it is the only HD in your system) make partition
for system&apps, necessary size (2-5G); make partition for swap (3*physical
memory); and set the rest as one partition (70-75G).

If it is not the only HD, but the fastest, put 2 partitions (swap&video).

If it is not the only HD, and not the fastest, put 1 partition (video).

Yours,

  Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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