On 5/14/10 9:33 PM, steve roche wrote:
Me again-- (I have been up for 12 hours trying to restore a kernel panic on both an iBook, and a g4 Sawtooth ... I had this question, which may relate to the slow, unresponsive PISMO problem: Last year my 30 gig HD died, and I bought a (nice!) new Seagate 80 gig HD. I installed it, and was instructed to partition it. I decided to partition it into two sections. WRONG. I was told they were too large.. try again. Okay, four sections. WRONG. Okay, how about 8 partitions...Wrong, again. I settled on 10 partitions. In my Finder, there are 10 hard drives, all called 'Untitled." (I finally got them off my desktop!).
Who or what told you all this. My Pismo has a 120Gb drive and it is partitioned into just two partitions, one for Tiger and one for Ubuntu. As a rule that is the only reason I partition drives.\
There are 10 "Volumes", not harddrives. Even when you only have one partition on your HD what you see on the desktop is a Volume.
I have filled up almost ONE of them. (7.1 gigs?). Is there a problem, a bottleneck, so to speak, for information to spill over from one partition to the next? Or does this sort of thing happen smoothly? Is this why the PISMO is turtle-slow?
The biggest problem is if (when) your boot partition gets full. You can move some stuff off to other drives but not everything.
(At one point I transferred 6 gigabytes of itunes directly into partition number two, since #1 was half-full. Just for fun.) And, should I name them all? (they are all untitled). There are only seven Dwarfs. (dwarves?) Really, I'd like to re-install a new OS and get rid of all this nonsense. I've seen much bigger HD's and they did not have to be partitioned down into tiny bits. And so many partitions-- a slow-down?
It's certainly a slow down in that you have to manage all those partitions. There can be some advantages to partitioning (although 10 is a might extreme). Personally The lack of flexibility is more than enough reason to avoid partitioning.
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