On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 04:10 AM, Charles Martin wrote:
This is WAAAAAAY outdated information. Whatever book you're reading from, TOSS IT. Mac OS Standard format was made obsolete with OS 8.1 -- that's almost six years ago (an epoch in computer time).
Agreed. Anyone who refers to gigabytes in ones and twos these days either deals in old Macs (my case) or is talking toilet filler. Minimum partition size foe 10.2.x is 8GB IMHO - otherwise you don't have sufficient space for Swap, Home Folder stuff and Applications.
While it's perfectly sensible to partition very large drives for specific purposes, by and large most "normal" users with their built-in 120GB or 80GB or what-have-you drives don't need to bother.
I split my OS from my data as a matter of course. I thought I was being paranoid with OS X until the 10.2.5 update crippled my G3/400 and I had to move all my data out of my Home folder in Mac OS 9. It struck me when i got my iMac I couldn't do that as it will only boot OS X! Thus I split OS X from my data on a 10GB partition. I only have a 60GB drive and I still have plenty of room for data, 38GB (I had another 10GB partition to keep 10.3 WWDC away from my files) is fine for me.
YMMV, esp. if you shunt video, but then again I'd have a 7200rpm FireWire external if I was doing video on an iMac.
Unless you have some specific reason for partitioning, I'd suggest you un-partition those segments. 40GB is quite tiny by today's standards (whereas six years ago it was practically unheard of. See what I mean about computer time?)
I'd keep it that way. So there :P.
Since Panther is such a large "upgrade,"
It's actually only a few dozen megs more than Jaguar, if the developer builds are anything to go by.
I think what he means is it's a massive upgrade from the 'changes' POV. I *never* go up a major OS X increment over the top of the previous version. I did it from 10.1.5 to 10.2.1 on my iBook and regretted it constantly as my iBook behaved very strangely at times, plus, as was the case with Classic OSs, it leaves a lot of unused and random stuff behind.
I would think that erasing and installing would be less buggy. But step by step, how do you erase a partition?
Correct. Brownie Points. :D
1. Open Disk Utility.
2. Select drive
3. Select volume (partition). Obviously, it cannot be the partition you are booted from.
4. Erase volume.
Just a minor point, but you might like to backup the data on it first ;)
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