Well if you have say linux and want that on your drive so you have dual boot
available. Say you want to make a scratch disk for photoshop. Or have an
area set aside for just all your mac games. Or say you have a Dos card and
want to use winders stuff(yuck). These are to name only a few ideas.
Bruce
> From: Carolyn Shere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:39:03 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PCI PowerMacs)
> Subject: partitioning new HD
>
> Just got a new drive and have never partitioned one. Is there any
> reason to put different items in different partitions for specific
> uses? I would think that there should be a separate partition for
> system. But do I then use one partition for applications, one for
> documents? Any special way that it would be better or faster to
> decide how to use partitions?
>
> Carolyn
>
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