Comments on: A sea of red squares… http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/ Random tangents Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brie http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:12:08 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-228 One reason to use Windows down: You can use sites like browswershots.org to test your site in all versions of IE without a Windows partition. (I know that this won’t allow you to test interactive parts of the site but that’s what Wine is for. :-).)

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By: hechacker1 http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:17:08 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-227 I would reformat your drive using NTFS 64k cluster’s if you are mainly going to use it for large media files. The default is 4K, which means you could get 16x less fragmentation with bigger clusters (64/4=16), especially as your disk begins to fill up. The key is to never let your disk completely fill (there is no filesystem that can get around that problem).

It will also speed up your chkdsk times dramatically because there will be less clusters to check.

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By: Bolts http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:17:46 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-226 If a 4GB file size limit is not an issue, a shared FAT32 partition is probably a better idea than NTFS, since ntfs-3g still has a few issues.

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By: Mark Dennehy http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:31:28 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-225 In reply to Thomas Comerford.

Wasn’t so much a case of it being easier Thomas, I had to take the media stuff off onto an external drive because windows defrag won’t even run unless 15% of the drive is empty!

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By: Thomas Comerford http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:07:35 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-224 Hmmm… Would it not be easier to just shift all the media out onto an external drive, defrag what’s left on the drive and then move everything back?

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By: Jacob http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:26:51 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-223 Try JKDefrag. it was created for server and it has a 64-bit version. I havce it setup as a screen saver to do idle time defrags.

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By: bigbrovar http://178.63.27.54:8080/statictangents/2009/06/19/a-sea-of-red-squares/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:53:26 +0000 http://stochasticgeometry.wordpress.com/?p=194#comment-222 LOL makes me remember when i use to dualboot btw ubuntu and vista.. started with vista having a bigger partition. and a shared Data partition which was based on NTFS and contained most of my files. eventually as i got comfortable with linux i found out i booted widnows less and less. then i started to reduce the windows partition everytime windows crash and needed a reinstall .. till i just said heck and replaced windows and its NTFS drive .. i have never gone back ever since (2 years now)

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