Anil Kumar Sharma wrote: > U C this is all legacy talk, no more relevant in present day world. > Now days One can have two 160 GB HDD at the same value of money. > > Even if U try it today all your files use fat32 standard including swap in > which case U may struggle getting a contagious file. Hmm. I don't think "contagious" means what you think it means. Try "contiguous". I don't see the point of these sentences, either. Windows won't format partitions with FAT32 beynd 32 GB, as far as I know. More to the point, fragmentation may affect file performace, but if you're mounting a filesystem from a large file, it doesn't have to be contiguous: both Windows and Linux can deal with that for you. > > Yes I remember having once used some very old (1996 or 1997) flavour of > Redhat on fat, > because at that time HDD space was as short as 1GB or less > and playing with partitions was an illegal game. Ouch! Illegal? Where on earth do you live? I remember that time, too. Playing with partitions hasn't changed that much... And, to be honest, I doubt it was Red Hat itself. And I doubt the code to put / on FAT32 has made its way into Fedora. By the way, it's customary to trim stuff like signatures. And I don't want to be rude, but http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell would seem to apply. James. -- E-mail address: james | "In these troubled times, it's always refreshing to @westexe.demon.co.uk | see a major company concentrating on vital issues. | It would be even more refreshing if Compaq tried it | for once." -- The Inquirer
