PE> Oh, one reason for the small drives first is
PE> that they are small, so can afford to be FAT.

Again, you are confusing PHYSICAL drives with PARTITIONS.

PE> I keep the BBS on FAT because I consider it to be more secure.

Thats distinctly arguable. And rather academic if you chose to
back that entire partition up daily say to one of the 2.5GB drives.

PE> All my large drives are non-FAT because I like to have the maximum
PE> partition size possible. I don't believe in splitting a big drive
PE> into little drives for fun. That's what subdirectories are for.

True. OTOH altho the slack space looks bad with the big FAT
partitions, if you actually calculate how much it costs you in
dollars, you would get rather a surprise at how little it costs.

Not that I am suggesting you should use FAT on the large partitions.
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