On 04/25/01 12:36 PM EDT (-4 hrs UTC), "Paul Berkowitz"
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>> 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.
I'm not sure that it is. Or if it is really an effective palliative.
I too believe in keeping the OS and related files on a separate partition.
There may be some benefit in keeping data files separate from the
applications that created them, but regularly-performed backups of the data
are probably more beneficial in the long run, especially since with a
program like Retrospect, the backups can be performed automatically and
whenever convenient, in the middle of the night, for example.
In that file corruption and crashes are generally caused by conflicts
between two or more applications (or their related extensions or control
panels, actually), all the partitioning in the world is not going to prevent
them. The only remedy is, once you put together an efficient and
trouble-free operating system -- one in which all of your applications,
utilities, gimcracks and assorted doodads get along well with one another --
DO NOT ADD ANOTHER THING TO IT. Do not change a single thing! That means no
updates, no upgrades, no nuthin.'
The problem is, if you live in the real world, that's almost impossible to
accomplish.
Someday, they'll figure out a way to make everything work together and play
together without causing at least occasional crashes and freezes, but until
that day comes the three most important steps you can take to keep from
coming to grief is backup, backup and backup.
--
/Ed
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