[P1] To Partition or...!

[Tom R. no spam]

I have 5 partitions, including 1 for Virtual PC, and 1 just for
the temp files produced by browsers, etc caching stuff, so those
don't get scattered around the hard drive.  I believe this will
speed up, not slow down, those kind of disk accesses.  Other
partitions are for swap files (same reasoning, but with 640MB
ram and not very heavy memory usage it's not really an issue),
and 1 for pure OS9.  In a non-pure-OS9 regime, I'd probably
instead have a smallish 2nd OSX partition for separate bootup
for troubleshooting, etc.

But "tearing" a disk ????  That sounds like babble.

On Fri, 30 May 2003, Charles Martin wrote:
 . . .
> > I'm also curious of something Apple Tech Support told me, -  that
> > partitioning tears the disk, and slows the read/write times
> > substantially.
> > Would this be something to be concerned about?
>
> More malarky. "Tears" the disk my arse. It *might* conceivably slow the
> read/write speed a small amount, I suppose, but really this is just
> pure BS.
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