> 3-You're running OSX on a system that requires the system to be > installed in the first 8Gb. A stock install will put everything in that > first partition. Moving /Users off to it's own partition/drive makes > the most sense. All the files that need backing up are on their own > partition. You have a lot of room to grow, since now /Users can be any > size you want. Finally the system folder has all 8 Gb for the System > and Applications. Moving Applications would leave all 8 gb for just the > System, and is useful if you have a lot of applications.
And the reason you can't just install your applications in another directory or move them there after installation is... what? Applications is just a directory. There's no rule that says you need to have your applications in /Applications that I know of. Unless I'm missing something really fundamental, I don't get it. > You're (imo) going to get a far better performance boost by installing > more RAM in the system than mucking about with moving swapfiles, unless > you've got a system simultaneusly constrained on both memory and system > disk space. RAM costs at least $100/GB these days. Disk is getting down to $1/GB. And Macs don't seem to handle all that much RAM. The first 4G is the G5, and most G4s only support 1.5G. iMacs and eMacs? 1G. XServe? 2G. And OS X seems to like going to swap. It's already started sticking stuff there on a fresh boot, when I've got 300+M RAM free. Sticking swap on another drive is an easy performance improvement. It's not a matter of saving disk space, it's just taking advantage of concurrency. -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
