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Do You Partition? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

mangoman

mangoman

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 27, 2002
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Second Floor
I've recently wiped my drive. Reset the 60GB drive as follows (numbers are approximate):

55 GB: OSX Partition
5 GB: OS9 Partition

I never want to boot into OS9 again, but there's this horrible program called Quark that I have to fire up once every 3 or 4 months, so...

ANYhoo, my LAST partition setup looked like this:

10 GB: OSX
45 GB: General Data
5 GB: OS9

I liked this last setup. 'Felt' like OSX ran quicker and I've heard on different threads that a small partition for OSX is ideal. Problem is, I'm a gaming slut, and that llittle partition fills up quick with games like Medal of Honor, WolfenHo, Tony Hawk... You get the picture. If I reverted back to this old partition setup, could I install my GAMES on that 45 GB partition and run 'em successfully?

OK> I'm done rambling...
 
melchior

melchior

macrumors 65816
Nov 17, 2002
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there are people who partition their drive then redirect say, your Applications folder to that other drive. you can redirect your Users folder to another partition too.

take a gander at macosxhints.com which has lots of goodies and several topics on this particular idea. specifically here
 
Kwyjibo

Kwyjibo

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Nov 5, 2002
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1GB: Swap Disk ~seems to help a little
10GB: Macintosh HD ~OSX and apps
18GB: Junk ~Data, unstable/use occasionally apps, itunes, download Bittorrents and documents.
 
caveman_uk

caveman_uk

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Feb 17, 2003
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Hitchin, Herts, UK
I have two partitions on both my machines. I have a partition with OS X and the applications etc on it and a second large partition for my files (my ~ directory). I'm an old 'Linux Lag' so I'm used to having different partitions for different things. Note I don't have that nasty OS 9 on any of my machines....;)
 
melchior

melchior

macrumors 65816
Nov 17, 2002
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Originally posted by caveman_uk
I have two partitions on both my machines. I have a partition with OS X and the applications etc on it and a second large partition for my files (my ~ directory). I'm an old 'Linux Lag' so I'm used to having different partitions for different things. Note I don't have that nasty OS 9 on any of my machines....;)
Click to expand...

you might like this i'm too lazy and don't care, but it proves OS X is maturing to embrace it's UNIX base more.
 
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