[G4] Best use for the 2nd HD

[Al Poulin]

Yes, do it not now, but yesterday, before disaster.

There are lots of options available, depending on how you use your 
computer.  I was a big fan of lots of partitions on my two drives in 
the bad old days of OS 8 and OS 9.  Now with OS X, I have everything 
that I can possibly want to work with on my Main Drive with no 
partitions there.  The idea is to let OS X manage the allocation of 
space, clean up the fragmention, and otherwise manage the file 
integrity as it is designed to do.  I understand that OS X will not 
manage files on secondary drive that same way.

My OS 9.2.2 for Classic and for occasional startup is happy with that.  
All my old OS 9 applications and documents are happy there, and 
everything I do with OS X is happy to.  One thing, I had to move my old 
documents into my new home folder.  Just dragged them over.

My second drive has three partitions.  One for backing up my Home 
Folder, that automatically includes the e-mail.  One for Photoshop 
scratch space.  One for OS X Emergency startup and testing.

Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.

On Apr 12, 2005, at 2:16 PM, jonseward at mindspring.com wrote:

> Better do it now!  I filled up my primary drive to within 5% of 
> capacity
> and applications stopped
> working properly, then files became corrupted and important data was
> irretrievably lost.  A
> continuing reminder that backups should be early and often.  Too much 
> fun.
>
> Some people like to run applications from secondary drives.  Scratch 
> disks
> and cache locations on
> separate discs can also help to maximize speeds of various 
> applications and
> processes, particularly
> Photoshop, and other memory hogs.  Backup is also convenient with 
> separate
> discs.  Partitioning
> the disc can permit it to do all of the above, though the partition 
> size
> should be ample enough for
> the intended use(s) or there may be little benefit.