> On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Boris wrote:
>
> >
> With a 3.4 GB drive, you really should divide your partitions into
> smaller sections. You will want approximately no more than 850 MB per
> partition. For example, you could divide it up as thus:
>
> 1st 850 MB partition DOS Primary
> 2nd 850 MB partition DOS Primary
> 3rd 16 MB partition Linux Swap
> 4th 16 MB partition Linux Swap
> 5th 850 MB partition Linux Native
> 6th 818 MB partition Linux Native
>
> The idea here is to optimize your disk space. If you have partitions
> larger than 850 MB your disk space can be progressively waisted in the
> upper drive blocks.
>
AFAIK DOS can't handle more that one Primary Partition, so
you should create Extended one, and some Logical inside of it.
About optimization of disk space, with FAT16 number of sectors per
cluster depends on size of DOS Partition. Optimal size is 512MB,
but if you want bigger one use up to 1024KB.
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