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Don't partition MacOX drives. No need to.
Authored by: greed on May 30, '05 11:25:49AM

Aside from all the other reasons people have put forth for and against partitions, how about this:

If you want to use multiple partitions, do it. It works well under Mac OS X. And if you have multiple drives that you haven't RAIDed together, you've got multiple partitions anyway--even if you don't have multiples on each drive.

If you don't want to use multiple partitions, don't do it. It works well under Mac OS X; user data is under /User, system under /System, /usr, /var, and so on; and global non-user stuff is under everything else.

But why try to convice others your way is best? Your way is good for you, my way is good for me, his way is good for him, and her way is good for her. A little discussion is great, but blanket statements like "Don't partition you don't need to" don't really help. I don't need to do lots of things; if we got right down to it, I wouldn't have a Mac if I went on "need". I'd have an ANSI TTY and a 9600 BPS modem to a dusty UNIX machine somewhere.



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