Partitioning for OS X

[David Klaus]

There have been a couple of discussions on partitioning.   Having 
just finished a really bad period with my PM9600/G4 800 running 
10.2.6, I thought I would pass on my (oh DUH should have done this 
from the start) observations.   My ideas on partitioning are based on 
my OS 8/9 experiences, backup strategy, and now experience fixing OS 
X.   The problems I have started with installing a bad PCI card that 
caused a great deal of instability and that caused my OS X partition 
to become corrupted.   To fix my problem, I had to sacrifice my old 
OS 8.6 partition which happened to be within the first 8 GB of my 2nd 
drive.   I installed a very minimal OS X (turned off all install 
options) and managed to install in a 1.5 GB partition, update to 
10.2.8 and then install Disk Warrior.   This allows me to boot to 
that partition (using System Preferences) and then use Apple's Disk 
Repair or Disk Warrior on my main OS X partition.   So my "should 
have done this originally" partitioning scheme for system volumes is:

OS X  6.5 GB
OS X Repair  1.4 GB
OS 9.1 1.0 GB
OS Classic 1.0 GB
I have to work around the 8 GB limit on my machine, obviously if you 
don't you could expand both the OS X and OS X Repair volumes.  The 
Repair partition is there solely to support running repair tools on 
the main partition and you can install the repair tools of your 
choice.   The OS 9.1 partition is a bootable volume as a fallback 
just-in-case thing.   The OS Classic partition is for installing a 
stripped down 9.x installation to support classic in X.

Just an FYI based on my experience.
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