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Don't partition MacOX drives. No need to.
Authored by: jesboat on Jun 20, '05 04:00:00PM
I have three seperate partitions on my system— one for the system, one for my data (symlinked to /Users), and one for my media (symlinked to ~/Movies, ~/Music, etc.)— because:
  • It allows me to fiddle with different settings for different partitions (e.g. make some case-sensitive, which I do need sometimes)
  • It allows me to wipe certain partitions and not others during re-install. When Apple releases a new major version of OS X, I can just wipe my system partition, getting rid of all the crap I've built up, and re-install the new version over it.
  • Backups are much easier. I don't have to worry about backing up my System partition, though I like to so it's easy to restore the OS should things die. I need to back up my User partition frequently, but, since it's small (1 GB), I can fit backups on my server and USB flash drive. Media needs to be backed up very infrequently, and can safely use incremental backups. (Safely, as in without me being paranoid the incremental backups will mess something important up.)
Jesboat

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