A lot of good reasons have been listed for partitioning. However, one was missed. In the old days of OS 8.1-8.5 hard drive sizes where starting to grow fast. This was back in the day of HFS and HFS+. HFS+ is much like FAT32 in that each data block is only 4k no matter how big the drive is. Prior to HFS+ (hierarchal file system), standard HFS format would make the block size dependent on the size of the drive. You could have a 40 GB drive formatted to HFS and the block size would be something like 132k. The reason this is important is because most documents are 4-12k in size. So one doc of 4k would "take up" 132k of disk space. It chewed up disk space faster and created some fragmentation issues as well.
Also, there are screen shots of OS 9 Drive Setup and OS X Disk Utility on my page listed in my signature block.
On Apr 7, 2004, at 9:16 PM, Bill Spencer wrote:
Hi there: Could someone please explain to me the value of partitioning, and
how one does it? Or direct me to a site where they talk about it? Thanks!
Thanks,
Glenn
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