On 12/29/02 14:36, Ward Oldham wrote >Hi Bill, > >Hard Disk Toolkit has the capability to provide you with the >flexibility you're looking for. Unfortunately, you will have to >reformat your hard disk using HDT and then you will have that >flexibility in the future.
Ugh. > >Would I pursue that path? No. I would purchase a second big fat hard >disk and be done with it. However, your 6GB hard disk sounds like a >stock hard disk found in an older iMac. If so, you may want to replace >it completely, keeping all of your storage in the box. Actually, I have an 80GB hard drive, but I was being overly stingy when I partitioned it a year and a half ago. At the time, many web sites were saying that 2.5GB was big enough for a Mac OS X partition, as long as the swap files were put elsewhere. So... I thought that a 5GB partition would be plenty big enough. Wrong! I have my machine backed up to tape, so I _should_ be able to wipe the drive and restore everything. I'm a bit fearful, though, because I keep seeing horror stories on the Retrospect site (not a good indication for backup software). Thanks for the tip, though, Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
