Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
U C this is all legacy talk, no more relevant in present day world. Now days One can have two 160 GB HDD at the same value of money.
Even if U try it today all your files use fat32 standard including swap in which case U may struggle getting a contagious file.
Hmm. I don't think "contagious" means what you think it means. Try "contiguous".
I don't see the point of these sentences, either. Windows won't format partitions with FAT32 beynd 32 GB, as far as I know. More to the point, fragmentation may affect file performace, but if you're mounting a filesystem from a large file, it doesn't have to be contiguous: both Windows and Linux can deal with that for you.
Yes I remember having once used some very old (1996 or 1997) flavour of Redhat on fat,
because at that time HDD space was as short as 1GB or less and playing with partitions was an illegal game.
Ouch! Illegal? Where on earth do you live?
I remember that time, too. Playing with partitions hasn't changed that much...
And, to be honest, I doubt it was Red Hat itself. And I doubt the code to put / on FAT32 has made its way into Fedora.
By the way, it's customary to trim stuff like signatures. And I don't want to be rude, but http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell would seem to apply.
James.