How do you partition your drive?

[MacBH928]

Hello there,

I was wondering whats the best way to partition my hard-drive to avoid losing my data?
is it better to split the drive into 2 partition, 1 for the OS and the other to store files, and backup the OS partition

or shall I keep them all on 1 partition(500GB) and make a backup drive of that hard-drive?

I have a lot of 250GB and 320GB drives, but no 500G external for backups

 

[Mr. McMac]

I recently installed a 320 GB HD in my mac mini and created a 200 GB partition for my data just in case I have to reinstall the OS at some point. I use an external 1 TB HD for Time Machine.

 

[John T]

If you're referring to the internal HD, there's no logic in partitioning this for backup purposes. The only place to locate a backup is on an external drive.