"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:46:08 +0100, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"
> <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote:
>
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>> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
>> news:ur2gn313k0e2ptd508soc8cfao2imorgh4@4ax.com...
>> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:19:33 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
>> > <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:28:27 -0800 (PST), a2mgoog@yahoo.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > If I have a 1 TB drive, and partition it so that my C: partition is
>> >> > only 10GB or so for easy backup, then by default Windows XP will
>> >> > reserve about 120GB on my non-system partitions for system restore
>> >> > points in the System Volume Information folders, which as far as I
>> >> > have read are never used for anything. That's a lot of space. Is
>> >> > there any reason to leave System Restore turned on for non-boot
>> >> > partitions?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> No. You *should* turn it off on all non-system partitions.
>> >
>> >
>> > By the way, one more point. 10GB is very small for the C: partition.
>> > Especially with such a large drive, I would make it substantially
>> > bigger--50GB or even more.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>>
>> In my experience 20 GBytes is generous for a system partition,
>> even for a server, as long all user data is kept on a separate
>> partition. My current system partition for WinXP Professional
>> requires just 8 GBytes. It is fully loaded with the usual apps
>> including various sound and picture processing programs and
>> lots of diagnostic stuff (e.g. the TRK), plus the paging file.
>
>
> Each to his own. My system partition is 100GB, and 56GB of it is used
> (no user data there). That's running Windows Vista Ultimate, but even
> for those running XP, one never knows what operating system one may
> upgrade to in the future.
>
> In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
> partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
56 GBytes is huge. It would be interesting to see the space
profile on your system partition. Here is mine. The first number
represents "bytes", the second "files".
0 0 C:\My Download Files
85 2 C:\Recycled
69,362 48 C:\RECYCLER
377,040 1 C:\Config.Msi
38,482,686 329 C:\MYOB105
175,243,430 1,822 C:\Documents and Settings
232,892,982 98 C:\MSOCache
778,841,422 10 C:\
1,538,539,221 13,564 C:\Program Files
1,663,555,395 2,991 C:\System Volume Information
3,553,344,512 18,644 C:\WINDOWS
7,981,346,135 37,509 (Total)