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Why?
I'm relatively new to OSX, so forgive my ignorance...do partitions show up on the desktop as separate drives, or aren't they mounted as part of the filesystem? When I think of multiple partitions in a Unix environment, I'm thinking of /usr/local or /home being mounted via NFS, in which case the directories are mounted to the root tree, anyway. On a Mac, either running OS X or OS 9 and earlier, partitions show up as separate drives, or more correctly separate volumes, since Mac OS doesn't show the drive, just the volume, i.e. you see a CD, but not the CD drive. To answer the second question, I used to partition my disks, but after a while I always found I needed more room on one partition, and less on an other, and so on, so I have stopped partitioning drives at all. While is it helpful from a maintenance point of view, I haven't had a need for it. I just boot my Mac from a custom made BootCD with both DiskWarrior and Drive 10. I think booting from a partition on the same hard drive that contains your main boot partition to fix that drive is not a great idea, since you are still on the same physical hard drive. --- |
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