partitions

[mmmdreg]

the workings of the Users partition mounted at /Users through fstab

 

[mmmdreg]

through the default location..and sorry for the amount of posts...

 

[macktheknife]

I was thinking of reformatting and partitioning my TiBook (I think there's too much junk littered everywhere), and I was scanning these old threads. Now, I have a quick question: I have a 550 Mhz TiBook with 30 GB of HD space. I don't care for OS 9, so I don't plan on installing it. How many partitions should I make? How much space should I leave for the OS partition? I also read something about a swap partition. What is it and is that recommended?

Thanks.

 

[FattyMembrane]

Originally posted by mmmdreg
the Users partition is actually mounted at /Users instead of the default /Volumes/Users so the Users folder on the OSX partition is the Users partition as you will see in the following post...

whoa, cool trick. i've been wanting to do this. how do you arrange this set up? also, if i was to create a small partition for my swap file, does anyone know if i could name it something like ".swap" so that it is invisible in the finder (since i will not be using it)?

 

[mmmdreg]

Originally posted by FattyMembrane
whoa, cool trick. i've been wanting to do this. how do you arrange this set up? also, if i was to create a small partition for my swap file, does anyone know if i could name it something like ".swap" so that it is invisible in the finder (since i will not be using it)?

Okay..this assumes you have basic unix knowledge...
go
here
and click on "move the applications/users folder" BUT THEN click
here
for it to work with Jaguar...IT WILL NOT WORK UNLESS U PUT THE TEXT OF THE 2ND PAGE IN THE fstab FILE...


to summarise, if you know what you're doing, rename your current users folder to users-old using sudo. copy the entire folder to your users partition using ditto. create an fstab file with the entry "LABEL=Users /Users hfs rw 1 2"...restart..and remove the users-old directory

 

[billyboy]

I dont think it is right to suggest partitioning with OSX and apps on different partiitions. OSX and apps on one, data on another is fine and keeps yor drive tidy and lets Jagua work in the way it was designed. OSX plus apps on your internal drive with an external hard drive for data even better. Work with Carbon Copy Cloner and you will be safe and never sorry if there is a crash.

 

[AmbitiousLemon]

im not saying everyone should have apps on a separate partition but there is absolutely nohing wrong with it. osx doesnt care where the apps are. it makes no difference to the app or the os so why not store them wherever you want (be that in apple's app folder or on another partition).

 

[billyboy]

osx doesnt care where the apps are.

Are you sure about that in every case? Plenty of people post problems when Word is on a different partition. Also maybe for finding apps it is OK for OSX to hunt wherever, but isnt that increasing the work for the hard drive. Minor points I know, but for some users the little things build up and after partitioning they might wonder why OSX isnt kicking butt like it can on one dirt great partition.

 

[AmbitiousLemon]

as i said before osx doesnt care where the apps are.

there are no problems resulting from placing apps somewhere besides the apps folder. no matter what people claim about word or other apps. if they are having trouble its for another reason.

the reason for putting the apps on a separate partition is to protect the os and speed things up.

 

[billyboy]

OK, fair points.

I have a 40GB internal drive which I am going to reformat with 2 partitions, I have plans for an external FW drive some time in the future to store my data. How would you apportion the sizes for an OSX partition and an apps partition? ( I currently have 600MB of applications).

Do you go with the thinking that OSX works better if it has the biggest partition possible, or is that a myth?