On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Steven Wood wrote:
FYI, when I recently worked with an "authorized Apple technician" he recommended that I not partition hard drives with OS X, since the OS needs "room to roam" and he saw no benefit for me or the 'puter with partitioning.
Frank P. Eigler added:
And hopefully he queried you as to your needs and probable uses before making that recommendation.
The most important aspect in the decision would be how much open space do you have left for OS X if you do partition the drive. On a smaller size drive a partition would probably not be a good idea especially if you are installing all your applications on the same partition. Folks who have systems requiring the less than 8 GB partition may find things getting tight and slower performance when applications start taking up space.
Many people say to put your apps on a separate partition to avoid this but it's been said some apps like to be on the same volume (partition) as the system files. Maybe some list member in-the-know can provide a short list of popular OS X software apps that work best on the system file partition?
Mike
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