[JamesRedwood]

Hello All,

Just wanted to know what you think about disk partitoning, and how many partitions you normally have on a 160GB.

Is it a problem to have one big hard drive volume. Or is is better to have many small volumes.

Anybody running Tiger like to give a beakdown of volumes and whatt they are used for.

Thank a lot.

[hadocon]

Originally Posted by JamesRedwood

Hello All,

Just wanted to know what you think about disk partitoning, and how many partitions you normally have on a 160GB.

Is it a problem to have one big hard drive volume. Or is is better to have many small volumes.

Anybody running Tiger like to give a beakdown of volumes and whatt they are used for.

Thank a lot.

Partitioning does absolutely nothing. There are no benefits unless you want to install seperate OS, and multi-boot.

End of story.

[trip]

Originally Posted by JamesRedwood

Hello All,

Just wanted to know what you think about disk partitoning, and how many partitions you normally have on a 160GB.

Is it a problem to have one big hard drive volume. Or is is better to have many small volumes.

Anybody running Tiger like to give a beakdown of volumes and whatt they are used for.

Thank a lot.

I plan to use partitions as a means to enforce and reserve capacity.
Example partition drives for desktop:

1. OSX (80 gig)
2. Windows (20 gig for VPC)
3. Music 20 gig (I set the partition to be the same size as my ipod)
4. Photos (60 gig same as ipod photo)
5. Cache (60 gig for default download directory - I make sure anything i download lives here, if full i know it's time to clean up)

Just my working preference.

[hadocon]

Originally Posted by trip

I plan to use partitions as a means to enforce and reserve capacity.
Example partition drives for desktop:

1. OSX (80 gig)
2. Windows (20 gig for VPC)
3. Music 20 gig (I set the partition to be the same size as my ipod)
4. Photos (60 gig same as ipod photo)
5. Cache (60 gig for default download directory - I make sure anything i download lives here, if full i know it's time to clean up)

Just my working preference.

Why? You have such little self control that you need to impose technical limitations upon yourself? Good luck with that.

[trip]

Originally Posted by hadocon

Why? You have such little self control that you need to impose technical limitations upon yourself? Good luck with that.

lack self control ? that's just stupid. When one deals with large amounts of data and data transfers yet doesn't prefer to check these things everytime one does a transfer.... one saves work & time by having these variables set in stone. It's called process.

impose ? well how does one impose if it's by choice ? If it was an imposition I wouldn't do it.

Just because people work differently than you doesn't mean it's wrong or not of value. So maybe you should keep your quippy little comments to yourself.

[as2]

Originally Posted by trip

lack self control ? that's just stupid. When one deals with large amounts of data and data transfers yet doesn't prefer to check these things everytime one does a transfer.... one saves work & time by having these variables set in stone. It's called process.

impose ? well how does one impose if it's by choice ? If it was an imposition I wouldn't do it.

Just because people work differently than you doesn't mean it's wrong or not of value. So maybe you should keep your quippy little comments to yourself.

B I T C H F I G H T!!

[Randman]

Partitioning isn't need on OSX unless you're a developer and need multiple OSes on it, or maybe for video work. The rest tends be a holdover from OS9 and Windows days.