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Authored by: jackAlbright on Nov 30, '04 03:46:17PM

I do Mac support in a corporate setting. We use partitioning to make it easier to reimage systems. Its much faster to copy user data to the second partition, or just have the user put it there in the first place. Some people have lots of iTunes music, for instance, and we were finding that it really drained our time to have to copy the files to an external Firewire drive and then copy back again.
On my Mac at home, I haven't bothered partitioning, but now that I think about it, I think I should (for the reason stated above)



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Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Dec 01, '04 09:44:59PM

I'm in a similar situation. We find that making a boot partition of just an OS and a few utilities on a Firewire drive allows us to boot to that, do repairs if necessary, and then run Carbon Copy Cloner to suck off the user's data.

Although I believe you can make a single .dmg or restore image with CCC, I've always found it much easier to clone their data to the second partition on the FW HD



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