Re: Fwd: Partition my drive or not...

[Gary D. Adams]

I always partition, too, and there are several reasons. First, to allow 
booting from another partition for diagnostics (of course, if the hd 
physically goes out, that's not worth much). Second, and more 
importantly, because I've always heard that partitioning a large drive 
eliminates wasted space--since the allocation block size is dependent 
upon the size of the volume... larger volumes get larger allocation blocks.

http://www.themacintoshguy.com/MacTips/archive/tip10.shtml

Isn't the situation the same in X?

Gary

Luis Sequeira wrote:

 >> Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros

 and cons?

I always partition my drives because this allows for
My 60GB TiBook drive has 4 partitions, roughly one for  the System, 
one for Applications and stuff, and two for video work (which can then 
be kept defragmented, since I can erase them whenever I need) - for 
some people, this might be used for a large iTunes library, for example.

Keeping most of my applications in a separate partition  has saved me 
huge amounts of time when I recently installed Panther;  moreover, I 
had cloned my Jaguar system to one the video partitions, which allowed 
me a safety net in case something wrong happened (which it didn't). 
With this setup I was able too clean install panther with minimum 
hassle. It would have been a lot more painful if I had a 
nonpartitioned drive.

Luis





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