Re: Partition my drive or not...

[David George Hogg]

On 4 Dec 2003, at 11:20, Luis Sequeira wrote:

 >> Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros
 and cons?
 If you partition you drive to keep 9 on a separate partition, should
 you need to do a clean OS X install, you won't have to re-install 9.
 Plus, it makes troubleshooting easier since the folders from OS 9 
are
 not mixed up with those from OS X.
I personally wouldn't do it.  It is possible to do an archive and
install instead of a completely clean install with the OS X 
installer. This will leave your user data and any other installations 
in place on
your drive and not clobber them upon install.  There shouldn't be a
need to do a complete clean install unless you wipe the drive and then
you'll be needing a backup anyway.

If you feel the need to partition I would only do a small OS 9
partition in addition to the OS X partition.  Every time I partition a
drive for personal use in hopes of more efficient organization I
eventually run out of space on one partition or another.  Depends on
your usage, of course...
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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I quite honestly think that it easier and simpler to use one partition, 
I have 1 on my Dual-USB (20GB) iBook, using Panther, and for classic I 
logged into the root user and put the classic folder in the "System" 
directory under a folder named classic-
Macintosh HD > System > Classic > System Folder
							Applications
I think it is simpler and less clumsy this way.
	David.

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