On Aug 7, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Bill Rising wrote: > What are your thoughts on partitioning?
The requirements for multiple boot schemes are obvious, but I wonder if partitioning isn't a vestige of the OS 9 era. Today we have a stable OS, huge disk, and ready availability of large, fast, and inexpensive second drives. On a single disk?operating exclusively in OS X?it would seem a partition for the OS, Applications, etc. and another for storage would be all that is required. If, in fact one needs to partition at all. Coming from a 20G laptop?which always 12G available with storage on an external Firewire drive?to a new box with 160G was bit reminiscent of staring into the Grand Canyon. I fought the urge to partition the begee's out of it and made two; one 20G OS partition, and one 140G partition for image storage. I added a second 80G 7200 RPM internal drive-about as small as you can buy these days :)?with a 5G first partition for a Photoshop scratch disk, and a second 75G partition for backup. For now, the Firewire drive has been relegated to rescuing client disk that were not backed up. Could I lease all the unused disk space I have to the less fortunate, maybe partition it into mini-storage? ...jf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050807/c90646b6/attachment.bin
