OSXhints: A real workaround for the 8GB limit on older Macs

2004-07-06 Thread Mikael Byström
Did you guys see this one? I've worked out a work-around for the 8GB limit for system volumes on older Macintoshes. I'm writing this on a Beige G3 with a 27G system partition, and I'm confident that it won't be rendered unbootable by system updates or disk activity (the reason for the 8GB limit

Re: OSXhints: A real workaround for the 8GB limit on older Macs

2004-07-06 Thread Adam Thayer
Yes, definitely interesting, but be aware you still need a partition that you boot from to help and that needs to be in the first 8GB of the drive, and it consumes space away from your OS X partition. Before you do something like this, ask yourself if the work you have to put into