[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Steven Rogers]

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote:

> On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 17:15 Canada/Eastern, Michael Winter wrote:
>
>>> Unless you have some specific reason why you need to partition it, 
>>> you should leave it the way Apple sends it to you, ie unpartitioned. 
>>> IMHO.
>>
>> I would concur with Charles. Especially because unless you know why 
>> you're partitioning, you don't know how big to make the partitions.
>
> I disagree.
>
> For general use, I'd recommend partitioning the drive in 3 volumes.

Why?  unless you're dumping raw partitions for backup, there's no 
necessary relationship between what gets backed-up and partitions. A 
"scratch" partition is a complete waste of time. I don't see that an 
"emergency partition" gets you much. Most people are much better off 
with a single volume.

SR