I've never bothered partitioning anything.......then again, I am
sometimes politically incorrect! Seriously though, I agree with Keith
regarding regular maintenance. I use the best of Diskwarrior,
Techtool3 and Nortons to keep my machine purring.....slowly, but
steadily!! (G3 with OS 9.2 and OS X.......2 drives, with both systems
on the smaller/standard 4 GB drive, second drive for storage, then
transfer to CD). I have set up other machines to include a drive
partition around 650 MB or so......when filled, it is then burnt to
CD).
Phil
It is politically correct to partition the drive and I have run
multi-partition drives for MANY, many years.
However, since installing OS X 16 months ago I went against the advice
and for the first time ever ran a single partition drive. Bottom line
is that I've never had a problem that has made me consider reverting to
multi partitions.
Today I installed my new Travelstar GN-X drive (it is FAST!) on my TiPB
and after procrastinating at length, decided to stay with the single
partition.
The important thing is to keep your drive (whether it be single or
multi-partition) in pristine condition. Do all the regular maintainence
things and set aside the time to run DiskWarrior regularly. Make
backups part of your routine and if you can afford it, buy Retrospect
and a spare hard drive and automate this process.
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 03:19 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Shortly I will take the plunge and install OS X 10.1.5 over 9.2.2,
this is on a G4/400.
I hear various stories on the need or not to partition my hard disk
for this. Is there a definitive answer? I would prefer not too,
apart from all the reinstallations needed I see the usual dilemma in
deciding what size to make the partitions.
All comments welcomed
Severin Crisp
Keith Palmer
Zytech Marketing Pty Ltd
PO Box 342 Bunbury 6231
Phone: 0419927101 Fax: 0897915900
the online FireWire data storage store -
http://www.zytech.com.au/
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