20+ GB to burn DL DVDs? - assuming that you are going to let the system use space on the OS partition for buffering etc as it cache's files or builds an ISO image
My (very) basic calculations for OS partition: 5Gb for the OS - with all those extra utilities, drivers and 'common' dll's 9Gb for DVD cache or ISO image - unless you can persuade your system to do ALWAYS do the buffering etc. elsewhere 2Gb approx for 'Windows Recovery' - pre-update/change files (Possibly lots more if you are using Symantec Goback). 1Gb Pagefile 2Gb? hiber.sys file - well it takes slightly more than the system memory if you have hibernate enabled ( if you disable hibernate, check after the re-boot that it has deleted the hiber.sys file) and then there is your 'user data' etc. - My documents, My Pictures Temp directories and storage... for each user. I used to reckon 7Gb for a working 2K instance with all installs, email, temp and user store areas pointed to other partitions and no Goback, or other Windows recovery details held on that partition Then we got NTFS with it's control indexing and Caches Then we got DVD's - add 4.5Gb Then we got DL DVD's another 4.5Gb 20Gb seems to be about right to me But it's up to you what you put onto the OS partition, and how muuch you want to do space maintenance and facility control. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Maki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Win2K over 98SE > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Button > > > OS partition needs about 12Gb free space if you are playing > > with DL DVD's - > > so make that partition 20GB + > > Why does the OS partition need to be 20+ GB to burn DL DVDs? > > Jim Maki > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
