I have a beige G3 DT 300mhz with 512 MB RAM on which I ultimately plan to install a G4 ZIF. I have recently purchased a new 80GB ATA / IDE Western Digital "Special Edition" HD to install. (It is my understanding that the previous reliability problems with WD drives have been corrected with the Special Edition drives, I guess I will find out.)
My inquiry is what others have had as experience with different partition and format configurations. From some posts here recently I have thought there might be some advantage to actually have smaller OS partitions at just about twice the necessary size to hold the OS and needed utilities such as Techtool Pro, DiskWarrior, Disk FirstAid, Virex and probably Stuffit Deluxe, with a OS 10.2.3 partition and a separate Classic OS partition. These would be considerable less in size than the 8.0 GB maximum size for OSX in the first partition. Then have separate application partitions for Photoshop, word processing, Quicken, spreadsheet, Filemaker Pro, Safari or other browser software and plugins, and audio files. I am not sure if this would work but it would seem that it might alleviate or help identify some software interaction conflicts. I guess if this is possible one would have to have all generated documents saved to the folder from which they were generated. Actually it would seem neat if a separate partition could be designated as the site for "documents folder", but I don't think that it would be possible to have documents automatically saved to s separate "documents" partition, even if the rest of this approach is possible. Any suggestions or experiences with various partition alternatives would be appreciated. Thank you. Don -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
