This is my first message to the list, so hope I am doing everything right. I am referencing another user's question about the advisability of using separate hard drive partitions for OS X and OS 9, but I don't have the original message so I hope I haven't missed the point.
Another possible issue in partitioning hard drives for separate OS X and OS 9 volumes is I think similar to the issue of whether it is better to be running OS X off a single large volume versus having OS X boot from a moderate sized hard drive and then running an auxiliary internal or external hard drive. That is that my understanding is that OS X can only implement its Unix based account environment on the OS X boot volume. If you have a secondary volume for OS 9, or for any reason whatsoever, anything that is on that volume is accessible by ANY of the OS X boot volume accounts. So I think this just boils down to a matter of whether or not that could be an issue. I think for many of us this would not be a big concern, but on the other hand if you to to all the trouble of setting up separate OS X accounts for all your family members, and then have everything on that second volume being wide open to all account holders, it would give one pause to think whether that's really a good scheme.
Personally, I began my OS X adventure using separate partitions for each OS, but I have kind of come around to the view that, for me, it's better to just run one full internal partition for everything, using easily demountable firewire external drives where appropriate for backups or for whatever other reasons.
Apple puts everything on a single volume, or certainly did for as long as they were configuring their products with both OS X and OS 9 (not sure if they are still doing this), so that was another factor in my thinking.
Looking forward to participating in this list. Sitll have my Bondi Blue bought August 15, 1998.
Jim Foster President Macintosh Users East [MaUsE] http://www.mause.ca
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