>
>How is partitioning going to help?
>Well if you repartition your hard drive into smaller slzes... say 1000MB partitions
>(I know it's small... drives me nuts too) Then you'll have some nice small cluster
>sizes... Wohoo! Yeehaw... Which means small text files (like cookies) take up less
>space... And small HTML docs, teeny jpg files... etc... Hey... What about making
>a 1000MB IExplorer/text files cache for small notes and IE files... And maybe your
>favorites folder... those things are teeny and the biggest waste of space you've
>ever seen. 32MB for a 100 byte file... AAAAHHHH! Maybe netscape would be a good download
>for ya too! :)
>
>Now issue two... Why can't two partitions be overlayed... I mean it should be simple
>enough to write a program to save all files under 16 K to one partition while all
>files over 16 K go on another...Then have the directory listings added to each other.
>(Don't forget to make allowances for When the file was updated and moved from below
>16k to above 16k (16k exactly should go in the above 16k category... :) For simplicity's
>sake!!!! First the file to be moved is marked (Date changed to real date - 50 years...
>when was the last time you saw a 53 on a date... that outta be an OK trick for about
>10 or 20 years to come! or... something else) Then the new file on the other hard
>drive is saved and verified (if desired) and then the old file is deleted. Dual partition
>filing system (C) Me NOW :) I hereby license permission to use it under the condition
>that I share all copyrights and that the software is written for linux first (if
>possible)... I like free stuff Oh and Redhat can just have the idea... if they drop
>5 megs off their next release... getting too large for my HD... I got a lame tiny
>hard drive..) It kinda gets rediculous when a 1.7 gig hard drive turns into 600 megs
>worth of a zip file (the entire windows directory being only 350 of that) AAAACCCCKKKKK!
>Although I'm betting most of the system files aren't in there. Anyway if you have
>the time and the inclination make a few partitions... Check out fat16, fat32, and
>NTFS. Oh and fat12 if you think you can use that few entries... I recommend 1 partition
>for text files (under 1 gig) and another for huge video/mp3/zip files, and another
>for installation of programs... which have both.

Written in response to: re: Question about 'Why do even the smallest files take up so much disk space?' (Temporal: Saturday, November 16, 2002 at 7:59 pm) There are presently no replies to this message.

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