[G5] Partitioning

[Ken Schneider]

 >> Does anyone partition their hard drive any more?  I used to with OS 
9.
 >> I was wondering, since I have such a large drive, if I should
 >> partition it.  I didn't think OS X really needed or liked 
partitioning.
 >>
 > Just "having a large drive" isn't really a good reason to partition.  
If
 > you want or need partitions, you should have your reasons clearly in 
mind.
 > Saying OS X "likes" or "needs" partitioning is not very constructive 
- it
 > simply supports it.  I do use multiple partitions, one for the OS, 
one for
 > my programs, one for data, and one UFS partition for my USENET feed.  
I
 > was getting extremely poor performance from my news server software
 > (leafnode) under HFS+/RAID - it improved by a factor of 9 under
 > UFS/non-RAID (no idea which variable was the cause, but the HFS+
 > partitions didn't show much performance difference RAID/non-RAID).

That sounds like the same partitioning scheme I used with OS 9.  I 
thought
that OS X prefers to have all applications in the Applications folder on
the boot volume.  That's why I was considering NOT partitioning either 
of
my 250GB drives.

Now if I can figure out how to have my iPhoto library and pics on my web
and media server I'll be very happy.  Or maybe I'll just switch from 
iPhoto
to Portfolio.  At least Portfolio will tell me which CD or DVD a certain
picture is on.  If only iPhoto did that...

Thanks,

-= Ken =-
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