On Aug 18, 2012, at 15:42 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > This spring I installed Lion on my 5 year old MacBook Pro. Lion does not run > appleworks. I find I have a lot of appleworks files that need to be converted > to pages or pdfs. I have an unused firewire 80gb lacie drive which I want to > partition and use one partition as an external startup drive with Mac OS > 10.6. I can then, at my leisure, startup from the external drive, and convert > my files. > > Four questions: > > 1) when I go to format and partition the drive I am presented with 4 Mac > choices > a) Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
This is the choice I would use. > b) Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) This means that the drive is password protected and encrypted on the fly. I'm not sure that this would work for an external boot drive, since this looks like File Vault 2, which is a Lion feature. > c) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) > d) Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled, Encrypted) Skip both of these. The Mac keeps the case of files (i.e. if you name a folder FooBar, it will look like 'FooBar' in the Finder, and Terminal will know it only as FooBar), but doesn't really use case sensitivity, so that you cannot have both FooBar and FOObar residing next to each other in the same parent folder. The case sensitivity is not really needed, and can mess up some Mac applications (which are admittedly badly written). I'd skip case sensitivity as an unneeded feature (though this opinion is not based on much research). > > Which choice do I want? a) > 2) what do all the choice mean? see above > 3) How big should the partition be? It depends on how many applications you want to put on it. Before switching over to Lion, I made a partition on my internal drive to hold Snow Leopard. At that time, I saw a lot of people recommending 20GB. Since I had enough space, I made mine 35GB. > 4) Could I also use a usb 2.0 drive to do this? Apple's support pages say so: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1948?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Cheers, Bill
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