[MacDV] Re: Firewire HDD Experience

[Andrew T. Lynch]

Matthew,

I used to use lots of partitions, one for 9, one for X, one for User, 
one for scratch, etc.  Most of this was done to make backup easier.  I 
ended up with a lot of wasted space this way. Each partition had to be 
a little bigger than I thought it would ever need to be, and therefore 
the space was not available for other purposes.  I now have 5 internal 
drives (on a total of four computers) and 6 firewire drives, and use 
one partition on each of them.  I've noticed no ill effects.  Backup is 
not an issue, I use retrospect, and make retrospect subvolumes to 
define the portions to be backed up.

The only reason I might use a separate partition these days would be if 
I wanted to be able to boot from one partition to run disk warrior on 
another, but I solve this by booting from another drive.

-Drew

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 09:50  PM, Matthew Guemple wrote:

> Did anyone want to weigh in on suggested partitioning for a 120GHD?


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