[CUBE] Unpartitioning

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 8:14 AM -0800 on 1/9/03, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>Oh I see. I keep all my Apps on the OS X partition. That's the 
>difference. I also download to the OS X partition. I wind up copying 
>downloads to another partition and then deleting them from the OS X 
>partition from time to time. But I can see that the volume of 
>applications will lead to the need for about a 10GB partition for me.
>
>k
>
>On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:10  AM, Riba wrote:
>
>>>How big do you think the OS X partition should be Gary? 15 or 20 GB?
>>
>>I guess it all depends what you put in your Home folder. Since I 
>>keep all my apps on a separate partition, 6 Gigs is plenty for my 
>>system partition.

Many app updaters, and especially Software Update, look for Apps to 
be on the OS X boot partition. For instance, especially with the 
Software Update processing of IE, the process would get messed up 
merely if you had put IE in a subfolder of, say, 
/Applications/Internet.

For any OS X partition smaller than 10G, I usually put my Home 
directory on a different volume (with sym link of course). But in 
this specific situation (Sawtooth G4 at work, 20G drive split in 
half) it's because I store a bunch of graphics files and websites.

At home on my 80G Barracuda, I gave OS X 20G and I don't see that 
ever being a problem.  But, at work, each partition has 4.5G to 5G 
free (about 25 percent free) which seems a little low for the old 
rule of thumb about HD efficiency. Unless that's changed with OS X?

-ms
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