Il giorno 2-01-2012 18:15, Bruce Johnson ha scritto: > As for partitioning, I haven't seen the value of that in a long, long time. > Partitioning gets you all the hassles of separate volumes with all the risks > of a single mechanism. If something goes wrong with your disk, you lose it all > anyway. Separate spindles, always!
Partitioning has always been (and still is, I see) a matter of personal taste. Like everything in life, there's no "One size fits all". :-) On my HD, I still have three main partitions (plus one for scratch disk). Since I'm keen on organization, it helps keeping things separated. Some advantages: - Faster file searchs - Faster backups (I can backup just one partition) - It's simpler to remember the file/folder trees (I always know a certain kind of files can only be in that partition) - I can keep differents OS9 System folders for Classic and for OS9 boot - If there's some disk problem on some partition, it's faster running a disk repair tool on that partition alone (this was more true in OS9 times). I totally agree with you, it doesn't offer any protection from data loss, though. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
