On Jan 4, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Dan wrote:
> > At 9:51 AM -0600 1/4/2009, D Stubbs wrote: >> 500G Firewire 400 HD from OWC, (their WD Neptune) >> >> Or perhaps one 30G with Apps and System clones CCC'd as a boot >> backup, and one 470 for everything else? > > Do that. Two volumes - one big enough to hold your entire system > volume and the other for everything else. If you chop it up further, > you'll regret it down the road. > > - Dan. Hate to disagree with Dan --- But as I sit here with 26 (yes Twenty six) partitions on the right hand side of my screen, there are times when the amount of 'real estate' is a bother, but on the other hand, I can see that I have 12 bootable systems (OS9 + X and 10/ X clones of varying ages), 7 that are empty, and 7 more with varying contents. The trick is to let the 'Partition Name' reflect it's contents. [Bless Apples 'long fillename ability']. Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
