In other words, some people like to partition drives to store different types of data "separately." I just use the folders Apple gave me and leave the drive as a single partition :-/ I saw a separate partition used very well on an Ubuntu system: it mounted as / home, and so restoring the system when it broke, as Linux is prone to do, was as simple as reformatting and reinstalling to the root partition while leaving /home alone, and thus the system was restored without even having to make backups. But I don't think Apple's OS X supports having partitions mount up as UNIX directories, so that use doesn't exist for us Mac users. Best off with a single partition, I think. Eric W. Am 27.12.2008 um 13:57 schrieb Luke Rademacher: > Back in the day, Partitioning was of value as most HD maintenance > utilities had issues with large volumes and some computers did not > handle Volumes larger than 128GB. In this day and age, most OS's > have no problem with large Volumes, and most Maintenance apps are > smart enough to deal with defragging or fixing large volumes. Also > Once upon a Time, You could make the Computer Use more of the HD > when you partitioned the HD into smaller blocks. Its Common > knowledge that the HD Capacity of the HD is Not the Actual Size... > 250GB is never gonna be 250GB no matter how you format it, its > always gonna be around 211 or 212GB. BEcause of the OS uses a top > portion of the Drive for its own use. > > Also, all the Drive manufacturers label their drives as Gigabit > instead of the common Gigabyte. 250Gb is not 250GB but most people > don't understand it. So your 750GB no matter how its formatted will > never be a total of 750GB. But thats just how it is, and if you > don't accept it then you will be always mad. > > A few other schemes exist for partitioning large volumes such as > having a Large volume be partitioned for use by multiple OS's for a > Dual or even Triple Boot system. But the simple matter is pretty > much all modern computers and their counterpart OS's have no > problems with large volumes. > > For example my wife has a 250GB HD in her Windows box. Its > partitioned into 2 volumes 125GB each so she has Windows XP on one > volume and Windows 98SE on the other volume, her's is a Dual boot > system so she can use some older programs in the OS it prefers. > > A client of mine has his Mac Pro's main HD a 500GB partitioned into > 2 drives, one for Mac OSX 10.5 and the other for Ubuntu Linux 8.10 > setup as a Dual Boot system so he can make the most of both worlds. > > Other reasons could be maybe your new 750GB You'd like to have in > different volumes for your Data, perhaps Three 250GB volumes for > Music, Movies, and Photos. > > And some people just leave their drives intact so they have One big > Volume for Video Files etc. > > Peace, > > > Luke Rademacher > Liquid Zone Graphics > Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/CDRW, > Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.5, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD. > MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/ > RW Superdrive, Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11, Classic Mac OS 9.2.2. > External 1TB HD FireWire 400 > Intel Celeron 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 > 5.5th gen 80GB Enhanced Video iPod > Canon CanoScan 8400F > Canon Pixma iP4500 > > On Dec 27, 2008, at 1:15 PM, hecowan wrote: > >> hello luke, >> >> i asked about partitioning because i see mention of it from time >> to time. as a fairly non-techwise individual i have not >> understood the value and purpose of doing this, other than when >> more than one person is using the machine. this is not the case >> in my home. >> >> best of the season. >> hec >> mdd dp 867 os 10.4.11 >> >>> Partition away if you like. Or not. Some people like me still >>> partition their larger HD's into smaller volumes. >>> >>> Peace, >>> >>> Luke Rademacher >>> Liquid Zone Graphics >>> Mac mini 2.0Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 80GB HD, Combo DVD/ >>> CDRW, Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.5, ext NewerTech miniStack w/ 320GB HD. >>> MDD Dual 1.25Ghz G4, 2GB RAM, 250GB/120GB/80GB HD's, 16x DL DVD±R/ >>> RW Superdrive, Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11, Classic Mac OS 9.2.2. >>> External 1TB HD FireWire 400 >>> Intel Celeron 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, Ubuntu Linux 8.04 >>> 5.5th gen 80GB Enhanced Video iPod >>> Canon CanoScan 8400F >>> Canon Pixma iP4500 >> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4