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How best to partition a large hard disk?
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Cambridge, England
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I've recently gotten a Mac with a 60GB hard disk, and I was wondering if anybody had advice on how best to partition it. Any ideas?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Being a former teacher: One thing you might try is using pencil and paper to outline types of files or applications you want to store on your humongous hard drive  and use it to determine how many partitions you need.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: College Park, MD
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I say don't bother partitioning it.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hong Kong
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It would probably affect your work and the computer performance. Personally, I would consider to have 3 partitions for:
- System partition (the core system and images)
- Application/ Personal partition (for application installed and personal data files)
- Working partition (for temporary stuffs, swap and downloaded files)
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Albq. NM usa
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I have a 30gig and four partitions.
One for my System and apps that want a system on the same disk.
one for games. one for personal files and filesharing. And one for RealPC and its HDs.
I do what Jim R. suggested it really is a time saver. But remember that you won't get the exact size you input (need room for drivers) but close enough.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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You can have me mac when u pry me cold, dead fingas off da mothabowd :eek:
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