I've slogged along for quite a while now with a home-made partitioning scheme on my PowerMac 6500 (OS 9.2.2 and 120 GB memory).
I think you get the picture. I'm at sea about assigning stuff between partitions and about the need to duplicate-install a lot of stuff on each partition. Help! Thanks.
Oy! That's a complicated scheme! Way too complicated in fact. It's likely the scattershot approach to system installs and applications and moving them after installation, etc is what's caused your problems.
There are basically two major reasons to partition drives under OS9: OS limitations and backup convenience.
Under HFS it was very advantageous to partition to many smaller drives so that sector sizes didn't get out of control. With the advent of HFS+ this is a moot point.
My partitions on my OS9 box were: System&Apps, My Stuff, Junk Space.
System&Apps contained just those...my system folder and the applications. These do not need to be backed up because (in theory ;-) you have the installers for all of them.
My Stuff was the main part of the drive and contained all my documents. This is the partition that got backed up.
Junk Space was for test programs, cd images, etc, and was designed to be a partiton that could be erased as needed, and not backed up.
Generally speaking moving scratch spaces to other partitions is not as advantageous as moving them to another drive entirely.
Having multiple partitions doesn't necessarily save you if you have disk problems, but it helps in some cases.
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