On 10 Aug 2005, at 10:59, Francesco sciacca wrote:
just a comment on the partition issue: the way you partition (or if
you
partition at all) largely depends on what the use of the machine
is. For
example, if working with music, you would greatly benefit from a well
thought of partition scheme. Your partition scheme is very sensible
for a
general purpose machine.
OS X makes extensive use of spare disk space and, up to a certain
point, the more it has the better it performs. With partitioning
you'll inevitably end up with one or more partitions either
unnecessarily big or too small.
I'm not sure why it should be bad for the OS at all. It certainly
isn't for
unix, linux and so on, and OS X is unix. In addition, the separate
OS 9
partition is a very very good idea, that has saved me from disaster
in more
than one occasion. Say OS X won't boot up because a micro-sized
grain of
dust is getting dangerously close to your RAM chip, off you go
booting up in
OS 9 and star trouble-shooting/saving your data, etc.
I don't think this is very likely but if it did happen you could boot
from an OS 9 disk (including an emergency one you've prepared earlier
with utilities on it) and back-up your data that way. Partitioning
for OS 9 is only an issue with older Macs, though, as more recent
ones can't boot from 9 however you arrange it.
More here:
http://www.macattorney.com/tutorial.html#Anchor-32647
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