How big should a maintenance partition be?
All that is required is the same amount of space as on your floppy boot set. The minimum single cylinder size on large disks of 7.8 MiB is more than enough. For convenience, you’ll probably want extra space for any utility software required to backup and restore or fix whatever is wrong with other partitions. Since maximum convenience for maintenance commonly equates to fastest bootup time, most maintenance partitions are set up without the overhead of a graphical interface. In the absence of a GUI, an OFM such as File Commander/2, a mere 280 KiB ZIP download, can greatly increase your maintenance productivity.
