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Don't partition MacOX drives. No need to.
Authored by: Anonymous on Jun 02, '05 03:20:05PM

The only reason I split up my main disk into two partitions last clean reinstall was that booting to OS 9 was killing my system, forcing me to fsck constantly. No matter what I did, the simple act of booting to OS 9 would often hose my main disk, causing the dreaded "?" on boot.

I put OS 9 on a separate 10Mb partition and now if it goes pear-shaped I can just blow it away and reinstall -- without afffecting OS X at all.

Regardless of _why_ this was happening, having the two systems on different logical disks means I can count on my important system (OS X) booting. I just don't care if OS 9 blows up. I do care if it takes my only boot disk with it.



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