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Authored by: bignumbers on Dec 01, '04 12:35:30PM

To add to the "why partition" discussion - I do this to have multiple bootable OS versions. I have customers with various OS X versions and want to have a machine that looks like any of them. Plus I keep one very generic OS install for diskwarrior-type fixes.

So I might have partitions for 10.3, 10.3 Server, development build of 10.4, plus a very plain 10.3. Sometimes I'll even set up a duplicate OS of a customer's machine to test out peculiar software or problems, change an OS setting (like LDAP logins at book), etc.

I can't see much of a reason to split data across partitions. Some advantages in terms of data loss risk reduction but in general I keep all my data together, on the main partition I use for my main OS.



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