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[cerise at armory.com]

Huh. I guess the parted on my Gentoo disc is old.  I knew it
was just a matter of time, but I didn't expect it that soon.

Incidentally, the reason NTFS does that is performance.  It's
much better to have files spread around a disk.  That way it's
likely that the head is over a file at any given time.

It's actually better if you interleave the files somewhat so
that the buffer can be emptied before reading the next part
of the file, but the last people to do that were IBM in the 70s
AFAIK.

The only reason FAT* had an obsession with the front of the disk
is because it needed to be able to create blocks of arbitrary
size quickly.  Having a nice solid chunk of free space makes
that task easy.

Of course, a real filesystem defrags itself automatically.

-Phil/CERisE

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:21:17PM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> There's not really a problem with NTFS. My laptop was
> originally formatted with an NTFS partition, and the
> parted variant I used had no problem splitting it.
> 
> One annoyance, though, is that the defrag for NTFS doesn't
> try to move all the files towards the beginning of the disk -
> it pretty much defrags files in place.  So if a disk is pretty
> full, things can get messy.
> 
> - Peter
> 
> On 10/3/05, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> > Assuming that it's not NTFS.  If you're running NTFS, then things
> > get messy =/
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:34:05PM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> > > Yes, this is in fact easy. Before starting the Linux stuff, you want
> > > to defrag your disk (partitions) with the XP defragment utiity.
> > >
> > > If you're free this evening, there's a SMAUG meeting tonight
> > > in Capitola, you can get help at that.
> > >
> > >   http://www.scruz.org/
> > >
> > > Ignore the meeting date on the page; but the location is correct.
> > > We're meeting every Monday night now at Tiny's. Usually
> > > a few people show up with their laptops, either installing stuff
> > > or gaming on ancient laptops without GUIs, or some other
> > > such activity.
> > >
> > > A ride could be provided. The attendees include some current
> > > and former SlugLUG people. SlugLUG hasn't had much in
> > > the way of meetings in the last year, and only about 1 or 2
> > > installfests a year, as well. And, as you say, the list activity
> > > is a little slow.
> > >
> > > Some variant on parted or nparted will do the partitioning, once
> > > the XP partition is defragged.
> > >
> > > - Peter Belew
> > >
> > > On 10/3/05, Patrick Brede <pbrede at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody. My name is Patrick Brede and i'm a first
> > > > year cs major. I just joined the list, and it seems like
> > > > nothing is happening on it. Is this true? The site
> > > > certainly seems like it isn't very active. Anyway, i would
> > > > like to set up my laptop (new inspiron 6000) to duel boot
> > > > SUSE linux and winXP. As i have never done this before, i
> > > > was wondering if anybody who had done something similair
> > > > would be willing to help me out (possibly in person) and
> > > > show me how to do it. I would like to be able to do it
> > > > without reformatting completely, i.e. resize the windows
> > > > partition. i know it's possible but have no experience
> > > > here and wouldn't want to screw up my only computer.
> > > > Thanks everybody.
> > > >
> > > > -patrick
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