On 1/7/04 12:36, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote >Hi Everyone, > >I will be getting a new hard drive for my G4 in the next week or so. I >plan to get a 120 GB drive. What are your collective thoughts on >partitioning the drive? (I will be installing Panther on the drive.) > >Should I partition (and why or why not)?
I'd say 'yes', because it has saved time and effort when a system partition got corrupted, so all that was needed was a reinstall of the OS. I'd say 'no', because I've strangled my system partition, and it is a waste of time to have to clean the drive to repartition. Still --- I'd still say 'yes' as an answer. The partitioning makes life less dangerous (or apparently less dangerous). > >How many partitions? I've got 4, which is a bit of overkill: a partition for Mac OS X (I'd think that 10 to 15GB would be enough - I have 5GB at work and am strapped, 10GB at home and things are fine). a partition for swap files ... which is pretty geeky and probably unnecessary. (1 GB should be plenty). Still, it's another manifestation of paranoia, because it adds insurance against the system partition messing up. If you keep both drives, it will speed your machine up to have the swap partition on the drive which does *not* have the system. Theoretically. a partition for Classic (1 GB is fine) a partition for everything else. Of course, partitioning means that some set-up is a bit more complicated, like needing to symlink the Users folder over the everything-else partition. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
