Do you guys partition your hard drive for easier reinstalls?
I read some posts that partitioning hard drive on Yosemite got more tricky than before. Anyway using Disk Utility I can see I am able to split it into two partitions, but not more. Why not? For now two partitions are what I need, but what if down the road I decide I want another partition for linux or bootcamp? And will I be able to easily merge those two partitions back into one if I want to?
Moreover, now say I want my /Users folder to be set onto my second partition. Found different tutorials for this to accomplish. One of them was pretty straightforward http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutor...-folder-to-another-drive-or-volume--mac-48822
But also some other tutorials claim that editing /etc/fstab is needed.
I think many Mac users, besides me, like to have several volumes for convenience. So how do you guys accomplish things like that?
I read some posts that partitioning hard drive on Yosemite got more tricky than before. Anyway using Disk Utility I can see I am able to split it into two partitions, but not more. Why not? For now two partitions are what I need, but what if down the road I decide I want another partition for linux or bootcamp? And will I be able to easily merge those two partitions back into one if I want to?
Moreover, now say I want my /Users folder to be set onto my second partition. Found different tutorials for this to accomplish. One of them was pretty straightforward http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutor...-folder-to-another-drive-or-volume--mac-48822
But also some other tutorials claim that editing /etc/fstab is needed.
I think many Mac users, besides me, like to have several volumes for convenience. So how do you guys accomplish things like that?