[CUBE] My huge problems in upgrading to Panther

[macjedi at mac.com]

On 10/31/03 at 3:30 PM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodious at mac.com> did send into the
ether:

> > CRASH...TINKLE...BURN ...
> Ahem...might I now expound upon the advantages of PARTITIONING?

Amen, sister!

> It's a breeze to reinstall your OS on a partition. You simply erase the
> existing OS and start over. If you want your userfolder as another partition
> it's a wee bit more work, but you can reinstall without losing any personal
> stuff.

Indeed. I have always kept my user folder on a separate partition, and it's just
a quick trip to NetInfo Manager to point the system in the right direction.

When my OS/application partition developed bad and overlapped blocks, the only
fix was to nuke the partition and start from scratch. It got so bad that I was
unable to even mount that partition to back anything up. However, I didn't lose
a scrap of data or any of my preferences, because they were all safe and sound
on my data partition.

My Cube runs 3 partitions: 1 for OS/applications, 1 for OS 9.2.2 (I have some
minor classic stuff I need access to), and 1 for all my data, including my home
folder.

> As of 10.3 I have a policy of keeping a working backup of my OS on the
> inside partition, it's such an insurance policy and I can boot into the
> backup to repair permissions.

I've got a Firefly 5 GB drive I use as a rescue drive.

chris