| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 4 Mar 2001 at 10:55:56 |
| Subject: | Re: PFS2 wrong index block id & wrong dir block id |
Richard said,
> If I upgrade to PFS3 will I need to reformat my partitions or can I just
> "update file system"? I have plenty of spare empty partitions to copy files
> onto if I need to reformat, so I guess it doesn't really matter :)
You don't need to, but it's probably best to. Because you don't need to,
you can install PFS3 and then backup/reformat/restore at your leisure.
> One thing I will mention was that when I backup up Work2: onto Work3:
> (partitions on same drive) it took ages... Hard drive was thrashing for
> ages... It was alot quicker to copy from Work: (IDE drive) to Work3: (I
> thought I may as well back up *everything*)
Copying between partitions on the same drive is the slowest possible
method. The heads have to track to the source partition, read a bit,
track to the destination partition, write and bit, repeated ad infinitum.
That's why I keep my downloads on one drive and the AACD mirror on
another. If I burn the CD to an image file, I put that on the same drive
as the Downloads dir. That way I'm never reading and writing the same
drive when shovelling files around.
Neil
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