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Paging file Logical

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by wdjacks

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I just finished reading Bill Detwiler's article on the paging file. Great info!

My question is this. I have a logical with about 2 GB that I have not formatted to be either FAT or NTFS yet. Are there any restrictions to the format of the logical that will hold the paging file? Will it function better under FAT or NTFS.

I'm getting ready to implement my firewall on this machine, and I want it to be fully tweaked-beforehand.

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by avachon

Hi, format it under ntfs to cut down on fragmentation (which also will help to increase access speeds). It is a good idea though to have a good disk defragmenter for ntfs (I use diskeeper 5). Hope this helps.

by wdjacks

Thanks, I appreciate it. I use Diskeeper 5 also (server version). Its great, I can defrag peoples drives from the server

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