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Subject: Re: Should I Partition the Harddrive for Chess Program and Tablebases?

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:03:31 06/04/04

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On June 03, 2004 at 16:40:15, Jim Jones wrote:

>The only benefit I see for partitioning in windows is to reduce the cluster
>size.
>At least for Fat-32.  I don't know about NTFS and basically don't care

Ok, but I'll tell you anyway :-)

If you install Windows XP on a clean disk and choose NTFS, the cluster size is
no problem. I have a 100 GB partition with a 4kB allocation size.

If you use FAT-32, or upgrade from one, you keep the cluster size.


Bo Persson



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