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From: rthurlow@van-bc.UUCP (Rob Thurlow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Hard disk partitioning
Summary: What's best for all formats?
Keywords: TOS Minix Magic Sac
Message-ID: <2193@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 02:31:21 GMT
Reply-To: rthurlow@van-bc.UUCP (Rob Thurlow)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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I have a query that I'd like to have answered by both camps that should
know the answer.  How do I partition my 60 Meg hard disk for use by TOS,
Minix and the Magic Sac?  TOS is the trivial and almost irrelevant case :-)

I know I want to have about 20 Megs for TOS, 25 for Minix and 15 Megs for
the Magic Sac.  What is the best way to spend this disk space for Minix
and for the Magic Sac?  How many partitions, and how large relative to one
another?  I am using the ICD interface, so the number of partitions will
not be limited unduly by the drive formatting, though I have heard that
not all the interfaces grok more than the Atari-standard four partitions.

My initial thoughts are a 50/50 split for the Minix, with / and /tmp on
one partition and /usr on the other; and a small 1 Meg MFS partition and
a 14 Meg HFS partition for the Magic Sac.

Oh, if somebody has the docs on installing HFS on a hard disk under Magic
Sac REAL handy, I'd not complain if you sent them along :-)

PS - Thanks to all of you who responded to my article about the broken
Magic Sac.  It is working nicely now that I know that I have to ignore
the Magic Sac Plus documentation on how they are to be plugged in :-)
-- 
"There was something fishy about the butler.  I think he was a
 Pisces, probably working for scale."   - Nick Danger
Robert Thurlow              {uunet,ubc-cs}!van-bc!rthurlow
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