Dear List,
My name is Robert and I am new to this list. I was recently given a Beige G3 Mini Tower. It did not have a hard drive installed. With the computer came a Seagate IDE 20 gig HD which I plan to install and initialize. I have never had a HD so large although it is modest by contemporary standards. I plan to install OS 9. I think I should partition the hard drive but I am not sure how many partitions to install. I am aware that there are different rationals for different numbers of partitions, but I don't know what they might be. I defiantly plan to use the web and e-mail. I will probably do a simple amount of graphics and maybe way down the road record some music. I don't have much time to learn a whole bunch of complicated programs, nor do I have much interest in that. So what do I do with a Hard Drive that looks as big as North America to me?
I've heard various plans for partitioning but for the most part they've never made sense. The often are trying to deal with a problem that can fixed in other ways. There are two reasons I've found.
If you ever want to install OS X the first partition needs to be 8Gb or less (some suggest something below 8Gb but I've found 8gb to work). Unless you plan on rebuilding the system from the ground up when and if you upgrade to X then partitioning it now will simplify things.
The other reason I've used for partitioning is on my dedicated CD-ROM burning machine. I have a 1Gb partition for the OS, apps and static files and a 3Gb partition for storing images of the burnable files. This keeps fragmentation on the image partition to a minimum and makes it simple to defrag it. I can also just erase the entire partition at need.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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