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partition schemes, reasons, panthers
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Just thinking about ways to organize my hard drives and folder stucture. I like having third party applications and my own documents, music, movies, etc. separate from my system drive. So I was thinking about partitioning my small (80 GB) drive into a 6 and a 74. Then wipe instal panther onto the 6GB partition and leave it unchanged for eternity. So I would then instal all my other aps on the 74 side, and store all my docs, music etc. on a second 160 GB drive. I was thinking of having the users folders on the 160 drive also, but that is kind of my main question, whether I should keep the users folder on the 6GB partition and have alias's on there leading to my 160, or somehow move the whole users folder to the 160 if that is possible and not going to screw stuff up.
I'm also not sure if I'm being too anal by wanting to totally isolate the panther instal on a partition. It seems it would be nice for backup purposes as well as troubleshooting. I looked through a lot of the posts here and didn't find anything on this.
Any thoughts? How do y'all set up your files, customize file locations among drives, and organize apps?
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How about getting a large Drive like 120-160 Gigs and putting yoru Home directory on that installing all your Apps and the Main OS on the 80 gig. Put your music, MOvies and photos on the larger drive and just keep the other for the install and Main Apps.
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Partition the big one Put OS X on the larger partition then create a swap file on the smaller part of the partition move your home directory to the larger drive.
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i hear you,
I have 2 drives an 80 and a 160.
I like both your ideas and am thinking along the same lines. You don't think there is a reason to separate 3rd party apps from those installed with the OS?
What is a swap file? Is that the way to store the home directory on a separate drive from the startup drive?
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I always run into problems when I separate applications from the system... but I do like to partition because I like to have a second boot option and I like to have all my data separate.
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On machines that can boot OS 9:
Main OS X Partition - X + Apps
Small OS 9 Partition - OS 9 + 9 Apps + Clean minimum install of X + recovery apps
Data Partition
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On machines that can't boot OS 9:
Main OS X Partition - X + Apps
Small OS X Partition - Clean minimum install of X + recovery apps
Data Partition
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Originally posted by barbarian:
I always run into problems when I separate applications from the system... but I do like to partition because I like to have a second boot option and I like to have all my data separate.
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On machines that can boot OS 9:
Main OS X Partition - X + Apps
Small OS 9 Partition - OS 9 + 9 Apps + Clean minimum install of X + recovery apps
Data Partition
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On machines that can't boot OS 9:
Main OS X Partition - X + Apps
Small OS X Partition - Clean minimum install of X + recovery apps
Data Partition
So you like to have the second X instal in order to do disc maintenence on your main X partition without having to boot from disc?
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