[X4U] Storage on mirrored external drive

[Tim Collier]

On 3/29/08 12:18 PM, "Said Nuseibeh" <photo at studiosaid.com> I was so excited
on 3/29/08 12:18 PM, when I received this message from Said Nuseibeh that I
had to take an extra xanax.

> Hi Listers,
> 
> If I mirror my g4 laptop (10.4.11) on a bootable external FW drive that
> has greater hard drive capacity, and I want to use that remaining space
> to incrementally store new data, where should I put that data so as not
> to interfere with system operations if --in the case of mishap-- I ever
> have to boot from that external disk?
> 
> I used to put data in the Public folder to (theoretically) avoid
> Permission problems. Now that hard drives are so much bigger, I have
> found that the Public folder on my mirrored drive shows a capacity
> identical to the original drive at time of cloning (SuperDuper). Where
> did the extra 400GB go???
> 
> Anybody have experience in this matter? Can I put a folder in the top
> directory and continue to access these files from other machines AND
> boot from that drive? Or is there another more optimum solution.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Said
Why not just upgrade to 10.5?  Time Machine will do everything you describe
and be very reliable.  As a matter of fact, I've been able to restore my
entire hard drive from Time Machine.

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Tim Collier
MacBook 2.2 gig 2 gig RAM
http://www.timcolliermiami.com/