On 4/25/01 9:10 AM, "Edward Hanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 04/24/01 10:12 PM EDT (-4 hrs UTC), "Paul Berkowitz"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Your setup is fine. I go a step or two further. I have my entire Documents
>> folder on a separate partition...
>
> Why?
To keep all my data -- documents, Entourage identities, etc. on a partition
where nothing at all bad can happen unless the entire hard drive
disintegrates. These are the things that are irreplaceable and can't be
reinstalled. The theory is that weird stuff might happen on the partition
housing the active OS - if things get out of hand - and even on the
partition housing the applications. An application could overwrite some
data. So data is safest on its own partition. (I only just started doing all
this a few weeks ago when I got a big, new hard drive so I could partition
it for separate OS 9.1 and OS X partitions. My old drive was too small and
was filling up, and wouldn't have had room for this, nor did I have anywhere
to back up my stuff for reinitializing. So I added this new drive. With the
luxury of all the extra space, I decided to be as thorough as possible. i
got a lot of advice - more than he bargained for, I think! - from someone
on this list.)
>
>> and all my OS 9 applications, including
>> Office, on yet another.
>
> That makes sense to me
>
>> Plus OS 9 and OS X systems each on their own partition.
>
> This also makes much sense.
>
>> I put aliases to the entire Documents and Applications (OS 9)
>> folders on my OS 9 partition, and also aliases to the whole Documents and
>> Applications (OS 9) folders on each others' partitions as well.
>
> I'm just wondering if all this is necessary. What benefits are derived?
Well, keeping everything separate keeps documents an applications safer. but
then, in order that documents can find their applications and applications
can find the system extensions on which some of them depend, you need
aliases on the same partition to where they actually are on the other
partitions. It's dead simple to make one alias of the entire Documents
folder and another of the entire Applications (OS 9) folder for each of the
other two partitions. it takes about 2 seconds and 8K disk space altogether,
and now everything works perfectly. What with popup folders for those two
folders, it's all available from the desktop no matter where I am (in OS
9.1). I don't even notice the separate partitions nor have to go digging
anywhere inside disks. It's a little fussier when I'm in OS X without
popups, but even then, the fact that there's an alias to Documents and
Applications (OS 9) in every partition means i can get to anything at all
from any folder very quickly.
The main thing is that IF you use several partitions, then adding aliases of
Applications and Documents folders to the OS partition and to each other
means that everything works just as well as if everything were on the same
partition, with no hang-ups. It's dead simple to make aliases. So if you
want separate partitions, it seems to way to go. Whether i really get much
benefit from the separate partitions, who knows? One day I may be grateful.
In the meantime it's no real bother.
>
>> Everything works perfectly booted from either OS 9.1 or in Classic when
>> booted from OS X.
>
> Does it make for a more stable system? Are you prone to fewer crashes and
> conflicts? It seems to me like overkill, but I'm always grateful for new
> ideas and will try anything that will makes my computing environment
> friendlier and more trouble-free.
Well, that's what it's meant to do. I don't know if it's really necessary.
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Paul Berkowitz
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