Hi Peter
What an erudite and eloquent response.
Reg
On 14 Dec 2004, at 7:06pm, Peter Sealy wrote:
On 14/12/2004, at 7:59 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote:
I am tempted to go back to having just one partition. Anyone got any
advice or suggestions before I do it?
Diana
The question of partitioning seems to attract as many positive and
negative views [and many in between] as does the question of leaving
your Mac sleeping or shut down over night and some of the other
imponderables of life. To make the long story short this is what I do:
my 40gb HD in my TiPB is partitioned in half; one half I use as a
scratch space, storage for anything I wish to look at/play with etc.
The other half contains my whole OS. So in one sense I have not
partitioned my OS whereas many folk spread their OS across two or more
partitions. That arrangement works very well for me.
Just recently I read elsewhere of a very good idea and reason for
partitioning. The person made a small partition, say 5gb, on his HD
and installed on it a clean and very lean OS. He did nothing to this
OS other than upgrade it, again very minimally. His main "working" OS
was contained on the remainder of the HD [or he may have had other
partitions, I don't know, but let's not complicate matters]. He was
thus able to boot the computer using the small minimalist OS partition
and then run Disk Warrior or Tech Tool Pro from their respective CDs
to check/repair the main OS instead of booting the computer from those
utilities' CDs, saving a lot of time and effort.
Cheers
.........
Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
