Dear List,
The whole partitioning quest has been a fascinating adventure for me and I am impressed by the high quality and quantity of response that this list can generate. You folks are something else and I appreciate it. Its now time for me to fish or cut bait. The partitioning scheme that I am outlining below will be the one that I am going to go with unless some one can find a major problem with it. I just realized that there is life after partitioning and I need to get on with it. And my thanks go out to all of you that have given your input on this project.
Partition #1 the Primary OS, 2 gig, which will include the operating system (OS 9.1), a Utilities folder and Internet Apps (Netscape and Eudora as they have key files in the system folder)
The second partition will be the Documents Plus partition, 6 gigs which contains the second boot OS and all of my text based data and the applications appropriate to them. I am planing to keep apps and their data on the same partition in an effort to reduce disk thrashing (sound like a civil rights violation) as recommended by Katz and others. An external SCSI boot HD could be in the future but I have to work out some technical problems (thanks to Philip for that one).
The third partition is the Pool partition, 12 gigs where the graphics, audio data and apps are stored as well, of course, as anything else that I don't know what to do with. I am following Dan and others recommendation to keep it simple. Although he recommended 2 partitions, I am comfortable with 3, and its a number that I like.
I am going to forgo a CD burning partition. For the time being I am going to use a dedicated CD burning folder and then transfer it to a vertural partition a la Toast. Which reminds me, I don't think that I have a copy of Toast, or any other CD burning app. Where do I get that?
As an aside, it looks like I have a Rev 3 beige G3 running at 300MHz with a L2 backside cashe of 1 meg and 192 megs of RAM. Nice little motor. It has a SCSI card on which is connected to a internal CD burner and DVD player. I plan to add a USB card in the future.
Robert R.
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