>The gurus on this list will be better at this than I, but partitions >enable you to use your drive as though you had more than one >computer! It's a DIVIDER utility. You tell your drive setup
Eeek! Reverse that. One physical drive can be divided in several "logical" volumes, each one of which behaves like it was a separate physical drive. How is this better than just creating folders on one large volume? Two big reasons, many things that can potentially mess up anything or everything on a single volume, don't cause problems on other volumes even if they are actually located on the same physical drive. Second volumes are treated differently than folders, they are completely separate in the eyes of the operating system, so that a drive with 3 volumes could have 3 different versions or types of OS, one on each volume. Storage is also more efficiently allocated using the older HFS, instead of HFS+ formatting scheme (HFS+ is efficient even with large volumes). -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
