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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: gvitale on May 31, '05 07:16:15AM

You just don't want to get the point: fine with me



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Why would somebody make different partitions anyway?
Authored by: jesboat on Jun 20, '05 04:06:16PM

I think the point wasn't that you had to restore from backups with a clean install, restore of /Users, etc. but that you could clean install if you wanted. I find the separation useful when I want to do a new install (typically with new major versions of OS X). Then, I can wipe my system partition, clean install the new OS on it, create my account, symlink /Volumes/Users to /Users, and be done with it.

The advantage for backups (again, IMO) is that you can backup different partitions using different methods. For example, for me, /Volumes/Users is small (1 GB), so I can back it up very regularly to my USB flash drive. I can back up / less often, because I know I don't have any critical data on it, and /Volumes/Media, my last partition (symlinked to ~/Movies, ~/Music, etc.) I can back up very infrequently, because it doesn't change often.

Jesboat


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