From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 12/16/2012 04:45 PM, Adam wrote:   
   > Moe Trin wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   >> article   
   >> , Adam wrote:   
   >   
   > [Thinkpad T60]   
   >   
   > It seems to be working properly so far.  I've repartitioned its "60 GB"   
   > ~55 GB HD into:   
   >   
   > 14 GB NTFS Windows XP (including swap and hibernate files)   
   >      14 GB ext4 for production distro   
   >       2 GB ext4 /mnt/accounts   
   >      14 GB ext4 for migration to next distro   
   >      <4 GB swap (large enough for suspend/hibernate when 3 GB RAM)   
   > ~7 GB FAT32 for miscellaneous data   
   >   
   > I figured that if I was going to be carrying this around, I'd probably   
   > have videos, MP3s, and other stuff to kill time on it, which is what the   
   > FAT32 partition is for.  I can always change things later.  My   
   > production install on stolid takes up only a little over 8 GB right now.   
   >   One curiosity was that "mke2fs -cc" on sda5 took 59' while on sda7   
   > (same size) it took 71', both while nothing else was running.  I knew   
   > the outer part of the disk was faster, but didn't realize there was that   
   > much difference.   
   >   
   I'm going to assume you considered the file size limitations of FAT32,   
   and in this application believe them to be unimportant.   
      
   A thought: If in the future you decide you need the space of the FAT32   
   partition for other purposes, an inexpensive, easily-pocketed (also   
   easily misplaced or stolen, so don't put anything important on it) usb   
   flash memory device can perform that function.   
      
   For that matter, the whole outfit is probably much easier to be   
   misplaced or stolen than you can imagine. If it were me, I'd keep that   
   in mind if I expected to "carry it around."   
      
   TJ   
      
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