[JRT]

OK, my new 15" AL will be here early next week with its 80 gig hard drive. So here is the question...

80 gig sounds like a lot of space. Do you folks partition these drives? Is there a speed or safety advantage to keeping the OS in a seperate partition? Wasn't there some talk a while back about setting up a swap partition?

Any advice or thought would be appreciated. TIA

[clf8]

Originally posted by JRT:
OK, my new 15" AL will be here early next week with its 80 gig hard drive. So here is the question...

80 gig sounds like a lot of space. Do you folks partition these drives? Is there a speed or safety advantage to keeping the OS in a seperate partition? Wasn't there some talk a while back about setting up a swap partition?

Any advice or thought would be appreciated. TIA

I'm not planning on it. The only reason you might want to would be to keep Classic on a separate partition, but even the usefulness of that is limited. There's no point in partitioning for the swap drive, since you only really get gains there when using different disks. I've done it in the past, and have only had issues. 1 partition is too big, the other is too small, and I just ended up reformatting the entire thing.

If you really want to, and plan on doing a clean install with Panther, then go ahead and see if you see any benefits.

[Karim]

The usefullness of putting OSX and Classic on their own partitions is over. You can no longer boot in OS9 so their isn't much advantage to seperating them.

You could make a small partition and have a dual OSX install so you have an emergency boot partition. That is still a valid use, or you could just carry around a bootable CD with your favorite disk repair stuff on it or just use Apple's default disk.

For the record, since I got my 17" (no more booting into OS9) I have ditched the dual partition scheme.