All of this recent talk about FAT-16 vs FAT-32 and the cluster sizes etc
has got me wondering about a related issue that I would like to hear
opinions about.

Aside form issues of cluster size and reclaimed hard drive space etc, I
cannot understand why someone would want a huge single C: partition in the
first place. My own drive is a puny 1.6G, but I have it partitioned into 4
logical drives of less than 500K each to avoid wasted space. But even if I
had a larger drive, and FAT-32, my inclination would still be to go to
multiple smaller partitions.

Wouldn't a huge (say 8Gig) single partition slow many system functions
down? When you went into explorer, or searched for a file, or did any of a
number of "housekeeping" functions, my assumption would be that the time
taken to refresh windows, and refresh explorer views etc would be
noticeably slower for a single huge partition than for smaller multiple ones.

Maybe I have just never had a fast enough system :( to allow me the luxury
of thinking of such a huge partition?

Any thoughts as to the functioning of a single large, vs several smaller
partitions?

Michael

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Michael A. Wosnick
Richmond Hill, Ontario
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