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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: How should I organize the contents of the Harddisk?
Keywords: harddisk
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.123811.9691@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 25 Apr 91 12:38:11 GMT
Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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This is going to be a long one. First of all, I just bought a 80 MB harddisk 
from gvp; it's for my A500, and I think it's called Impact Series II or Impact+
or something like that. There's a bootselector on front of it, in case that
helps to specify it(selects whether the A500 should boot from the harddisk
or not.). It was formatted to one, autobooting partition, when I got it, and
newest workbench/extras was on it.

So to the first questions: I've been told, that since it's WB 1.3, I should do
fastfilesystem. But also, that an autobooting partition can't be fastfilesystem. Therefore:
#Is it true, that since it autoboots on this partition, I don't do ffs on it
currently?

#Should I reformat it in two or more partitions, having a small autoboot part-
ition and one or several more ffs partits ?

#Is this ffs system any good ? Does it give an increase like 1% and therefore
isn't the extra work, or is it desirable?

#What good is partitions ? Why not have only one ? In userinterface, several
partitions means
you get several Disk Icons on the workbench screen(instead of having them
in the first drawer, since I presume I'll put different things in them, like
system on one, applications on a second and my "work" files on the third, or
something like that)

#If several partitions are needed/desirable, how do YOU organize your system?
previously, on floppys, I've had no need for this. But I know from Unix,
that i'd like a good structure for this. So this question is mostly,
about if 20 MB wb/autoboot, rest app/data in ffs would be a good splitup,
or what would be.

#the previous question leads to my final problem: How is the application/
workfiles/utilities deal handled ? I'll give some examples:
Texts, like readmes, are given a default tool. I've both seen
:more  , :C/more  and SYS:utilities/more

which one did Commodore intend ? It is further complicated by things as
how it should work with applications: DeluxePaint, Amigabasic, Documents
for wordprocessors, anims and modules.

A solution to some of it is when you can select both the application and your
own file(with shift) and then doubleclick, but I'm only glad this works. I
really want it to work just by clicking on the documenticon.

#is there an assign/link option for files, like applications(instead of drawers, like fonts: and SYS: ? If there is, I could solve the application problem
by writing :deluxepaint etc. in the default tool.

#Is there a way to change the line applications add to their datafiles? Two
examples: I want amigabasic to put another default tool in the icons it
creates, and the same goes for deluxePaint. Right now, I think they
put :Amigabasic and :Dpaint as default tools.

#How does : work ? I used to think of it as root, like / on unix, but now I'm
not quite sure.

#where should one put applications like deluxe paint, so they''ll work nicest?
That is to solve the :Amigabasic :Dpaint problem.


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right now, I have l, libs, c, s and all the other NoIcon directories in the root.
And a drawer called WB, in which I've put Tools, System, Utilities, and the
rest of the IconDrawers. So S: Fonts: l: etc are assigned to root, and
SYS: assigned do Harddisk:WB. This works allright now, but I expext to be
dirty, and wrong. In the root window, I therefore have three drawers: WB, App
and Usr. You guess what I put in each; DpaintIII goes in App as an example, and
so does games.


Sorry for this awful messy, long posting, but I really need some info on
organizing the system on a harddisk.
E-mail or post, as you find appropriate.
--
From the notorious
                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!)       AMIGA!               |     I'd rather play Moria.