From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G32Qa-00079a-I9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:08:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6J36KcA024062; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:06:20 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6J2vFIl012838 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:57:15 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y25so64267nfb for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:57:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=DQjVRrqnxCQnH0xZ7dt7yKFocMWFvSDGlAbRCPe9EOh+nnfPbA7mRQ8aqb19GAsgQIqUUKUkabc4VqU/QVxlX49P0vWXseCGZHXxq4p9zolRpmEMt8t3qYtX6zCdyfoHyRTcladgcO18NMzA2KvopriQ94XgF7fqQCFC6Kx8Z1E= Received: by 10.78.122.11 with SMTP id u11mr91414huc; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.16.7 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640607181957p33e7e5c0yb6b700cc49af7c3d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:57:14 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7573e9640607181501o49546aa8ref4e2dd2ee0ec12@mail.gmail.com> <7573e9640607181638w51ae2178p66721bf54e17de28@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: bcb26c1c4ed7030f X-Archives-Salt: 2c21dd95-bec7-4a8d-8f03-662d854795c2 X-Archives-Hash: 608bc5a8cb91f94b64146ba6e5d36ec3 On 7/18/06, James wrote: > Well I did not get a XP-pro installation disk with this portable. > The portable has a second partition with XP on it, used for recovery. [Way OT] I know some manufacturers do this, and it is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Why do consumers accept this? You save $0.05c on the cost of a CD, at the risk of having *no* recovery option at all if the HD fails. It's just stupid. If these are new systems, I would give HP support a call and demand they send you the WinXP OEM installation CD. > XP from the the XP installation/recovery partition to a smaller > partition. say 30 Gig.Sound like a viable option? My XP system under VMWare is on a 10Gb virtual disk, although I use NTFS compression there. It depends on what you want to use it for, but my guess is that 30Gb should be more than enough for basic XP tasks. > Is there any free download software (even if it's a binary) to > defrag this ntfs partition, for an amd64 ? Googling for > {O&ODefrag +amd64 } does not produce anything useful. Under windows, I use O&ODefrag from http://www.oo-software.com. It isn't free, but there is a 30-day trial available. It is also windows only (they had a Linux beta, but not for NTFS, and it sucked big-time. Corrupted filesystems, no response from their support line, etc etc. Seems to have been withdrawn). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list