Hi Ronni Thank you, message understood.
And thank you for all your help during the year. Take care, and enjoy a relaxing break over Christmas. Cheers Alan On 14 Dec 2014, at 10:19 pm, Ronni Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > After giving your subject more thought while having some food to feed my > brain... and then reading Daniel's reply to the list which virtually > reiterates and agrees with my comment in my email below: > "NOTE: In the past, we would partition drives to organize our files. This is > no longer a good idea, because there’s a performance hit in moving between > different partitions." > > While partitioning the boot drive still makes sense (if you needed to have > two operating systems), partitioning for data storage does not. > > So I won't post Instructions how to "Create A New Partition" as I can see you > could end up with a bad outcome... > Or someone else reading this subject thread could... and I don't want to > happen! > > Cheers, > Ronni > >> On 14 Dec 2014, at 7:08 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> I'll reply when possible, I'm flat out on clients work plus trying to help >> as much as possible on WAMUG. I need a break, some food for my brain, some >> sleep to keep my body going. I’ll get back to you sometime. >> >> Disk Utility is the program you use for creating a petition and removing a >> petition.... >> But you have to do this absolutely correctly. DON'T mess around without >> knowing exactly how to do this or you will erase the whole drive. >> From what you mentioned below: >>> DU is scary here - it says “to erase and partition the selected disk …” etc >> You are not doing it correctly. - >> You can’t partition a partition, you can only partition the hard disk that >> contains the partition. >> >> As I’ve said above, I will reply with instructions when I can find the time >> to prepare thorough set of instructions. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) >> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz >> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM >> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage >> >> >> >> On 14 Dec 2014, at 6:29 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ronni >>> >>> Thanks for the information. Can I paraphrase your general comments to my >>> particular set up - and ask more detail? >>> >>> Creating a new partition: >>> Is this a task suited to Disk Utility, or is a commercial application >>> recommended? DU is scary here - it says “to erase and partition the >>> selected disk …” etc. I don’t want to erase or interfere with the boot >>> drive; just create a second visible partition for movie backups in sparse >>> image format. Are the hidden partitions used for OS X Recovery ignored for >>> this exercise - do I just select the 2-partition option? Is the procedure >>> for partitioning the same for Fusion drives and standard drives? >>> >>> Removing a partition: >>> Are these tasks suited to Disk Utility? (One commercial app I skimmed >>> would create partitions, but not remove them.) After data is removed and >>> partition erased, is it a simple matter to re-size the original (OS X) >>> partition? >>> >>> Cheers >>> Alan >>> >>> >>> On 14 Dec 2014, at 5:04 pm, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 14 Dec 2014, at 4:28 pm, Alan Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> I had some success with the Sparse Image question. My questions about >>>>> creating (and later removing) a partition on the internal hard drive >>>>> (with OS X) still stands. >>>> >>>> Hello Alan, >>>> CREATE A NEW PARTITION >>>> As shipped by Apple, your boot disk has a single partition. (You can think >>>> of hard disk partitions as similar to rooms in a house. Right now, your >>>> “house” stores all your files in a single room filled with file cabinets.) >>>> Partitioning allows you to create multiple rooms. The only problem is that >>>> all these different rooms must fit into the space of the original house. >>>> So, partitioning allows you to create multiple rooms, but it doesn’t >>>> expand the total storage space available to you. >>>> NOTE: In the past, we would partition drives to organize our files. This >>>> is no longer a good idea, because there’s a performance hit in moving >>>> between different partitions. While partitioning the boot drive still >>>> makes sense, partitioning for data storage does not. >>>> >>>> REMOVING A PARTITION >>>> Removing a partition will erase all the data that is stored on it; so be >>>> SURE!!! you have moved all essential data to another drive. (Removing a >>>> partition will not affect any other partition on the same, or any other, >>>> hard drive. >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>>> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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