Hello Diana
Since changing to Panther and un-installing OS9, I have found no need
for partitions.
I have 2 internal drives (10G and 20G) and 1 external Firewire drive
(120G) for back up etc.
At first I had a 5G partition for the OS, then a separate 10G. They
both became too small after a while and I got the disk full messages.
Now I use the internal 20G and that seems comfortable.
If the disk becomes overloaded and there is not enough extra room for
the memory management system, all sorts of horrible things happen. (See
archives or contact me for details if required).
Regards
Greg Manzie
G4 400 PCI Yikes OS 10.3.6
Phone (08) 9383 3929
Mobile 0438 833 144
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On 14/12/2004, at 4:59 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
I have had partitioned hard drives for years, in the old days there
were good reasons such as blocking factor. I always liked to have my
system on a separate partition so that I could wipe it clean and start
again. But now with the later versions of OS X this does not seem so
necessary.
At present I have OS 10.3.3 on a 5 gig partition of my 60 gig drive
and I am getting messages about my startup drive being full. The
partition was quite adequate with 10.1 but even though I don't install
any software on it the updates etc have filled it and there is only
650 M left. I need to do something urgently before it falls over.
I am tempted to go back to having just one partition. Anyone got any
advice or suggestions before I do it?
Diana
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