Thanks, I may do exactly that! But you make me curious. You say "if you're only running Tiger". Well.....I'm thinking of moving to a Macbook Pro, which obviously would be running 10.5 . If I did, would there be an advantage in partitioning it?
On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Ashgrove wrote: > > Ione, > > If you're only runing Tiger, don't bother with partitioning. Just back > up you data regularly (to another HD, to DVDs). And run a utility like > Onyx (freeware) once a week to keep your system tight and prevent data > corruption. > > Good luck! > > On Dec 8, 1:00 am, Ione Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sorry, I should have specified -- Pismo, 500 MHz. I know that I don't >> have the 8 gb limitation. >> >> It'll be running 10.4.11 . I have temporarily (I hope!) misplaced one >> of my install disks, which is the only reason I haven't formatted the >> drive yet! >> >> What I'm concerned about is losses in speed from data being scattered >> across the whole disk. Also, possible data corruption -- if one >> partition is corrupted the data in other partitions will still be >> safe, but if there's no partitions all the data may be lost. >> >> On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:43 PM, Ashgrove wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Ione, >> >>> That depends on several things, the first of which would be what >>> kind >>> of machine you have. If you have an Old World Mac, you have to >>> make an >>> 8 GB boot partition, like Brian points out, for each operating >>> system >>> you want to boot from. >> >>> If it's New World (the Lombard and the clamshell iBooks are the >>> first >>> NW ones, if I remember correctly), then it depends on how many >>> operating systems you want to install. I don't see any other >>> point to >>> partitioning, other than that and, in some bigger drives, just a way >>> to organize your data, AFAIK. >> >>> Hope it helps. >> >>> Felix >> >> -- >> >> Ione Smith >> East TN Doberman Rescue >> --http://www.etdr.org-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- 865-776-7636 >> Facts About Albino Dobermans >> --http://www.whitedobes.com >> >> Speak truth to power -- old Quaker principle > > -- Ione Smith East TN Doberman Rescue -- http://www.etdr.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 865-776-7636 Facts About Albino Dobermans -- http://www.whitedobes.com Speak truth to power -- old Quaker principle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
