I find there are good reasons to partition your HD. Keeping Programs
and files separate is one, and I also find it gives very little
fragmentation.
Try a look at http://lowendmac.com/misc/2k0719.html
If you are running Photoshop, a dedicated scratch partition will be an
advantage, as it will keep unfragmented and not mess other things up.
If you have VM on, you can argue the same way for having a system
partition. If you burn CD's, having a scratch partition should help keeping
down the number of coasters.
At our old 7500/G3, we had the partitions System, Programs, Files and
Scratch. After 1 year, no partition was any more than 0.3% fragmented.
On our Cube, I have partitioned the HD like 3GB Classic(OS9.1),
4GB OS X, the rest (12GB) as Files. Not much experience yet, we have only
had it for a couple of weeks.
In any case, I think it is a good idea to keep OS 9.1 and OS X on separate
partitions. That way you can keep an OS 9 for classic which is stripped of
networking extensions; that is handled by OS X. I think Charles Moore
wrote about that as well.
hth
Martin Sorensen
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