On 28/04/2005, at 1:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At times like these, I am always grateful that OSX resides on its
own partition on all my machines. Makes performing a clean install
much less time consuming. There are pros and cons for partitioning
drives (as I'm sure will be pointed out), but with regular updates
of operating systems apparently the norm these days, and hard drive
sizes ever increasing, installing the OS on a separate partition is
well worth considering if you don't already do so.
I have found this to be the best way to go. I have the following
partitions set up on my Powerbook.
Master - 15GB
Clone - 15GB
Documents - The Rest
The Master partition is kept up to date with release software only.
In this case, Master will be the GM version of Tiger as well as all
the applications I use.
Next, I use a program called SuperDuper to create an exact copy of
Master on the Clone partition. I then installed any updates to Tiger
or Office that may or may not be coming out in the near to distant
future to the Clone partition.
If at any time I need to roll back to a release version of my
software, I simply reboot into the Master partition.
The Documents partition stores my Users folder which is both
symlinked back to the Master and Clone partition as well as
referenced in my NetInfo database.
That way, I always have a stable machine at my disposal. It also
means I can change software around without losing data.
- Matt
