Comments on: The Case for Partitioning Your Mac’s Hard Drive http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/ Mon, 20 May 2013 04:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: elektek http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375576 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:36:34 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375576 cheers, but just wiped it and started again :( I am having problems transferring my TM files to a new drive partition though – maybe someone can help me with this too?

thanks

]]> By: IntheChair http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375575 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:14:25 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375575 In response to elektek…

Try Soft Raid software, I believe it is capable of doing what you request. Very good software by the way! You can check it out at their site. Just enter softraid.com.
Good luck

]]> By: elektek http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375574 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:24:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375574 Hi everyone,

I have a macbook and I have two external hard drives. I have partitioned both but only one of them will let me change the size of the partitions without having to reformat. Is there any way to alter the sizes of the partitions of the one that wont let me change using disk utility, without having to erase the information?

]]> By: Rohit http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375573 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:21:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375573 By creating 2 Partition only advantage you got is if you OS crash like mention in article “system crash” you can do a fresh install on that partition without having impact on 2nd partition.
Only thing need to be taken care in all software need to be install in system OS partition installed, otherwise if you do re-install and if your software are installed in other partition you will not be able use those software’s

]]> By: Xairbusdriver http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375572 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:49:49 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375572 Is there any available source for testing results showing the benefits or disadvantages of partitioning? While I appreciate the recommendations of many people who use this system (and IU actually have two drives partitioned, myself), I would like to see evidence that there is factual proof from unbiased, scientific evaluations.

Maybe I’m just lucky, but I’ve never had any disk problems either with or without partitioning. But that has been with different hardware, OSs, etc. Hardly a confirmation that either method is better or worse. It’s simply MY experience. ;-)

Thanks! And here’s to NO one having any disk problems no matter WHAT they do!!! :-)

]]> By: Dave Greenbaum http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375571 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:35:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375571 Great article.
For the first time since 1984, I didn’t repartition my new iMac. I wasn’t going to use multiple OSs on it. I now own 2 pc laptops and a Macbook and then a Mac Mini for testing.

My partitions were always the same:

System
Applications (merged that into System in OS X)
Data
Scratch

Scratch was used as a scratch drive for graphics apps and it would become highly fragmented and often corrupt. It allowed me to quickly erase it and, pardon the pun, start from scratch.

Having System on it’s own partition allowed upgrade without risk of the data getting overwritten.

Whenever I upgraded the OS, I’d always install it on Scratch, wait until it’s reliable, and then rename System Scratch and vice versa.

]]> By: The Case for Partitioning Your Mac’s Hard Drive « Chicago Mac/PC Support http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375570 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:06:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375570 [...] Your Mac’s Hard Drive It has some good points to why you might want to do this.  Click here to [...]

]]> By: RichC in Nidderdale http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375569 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:08:19 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375569 Multiple partitions are possible with BootCamp.

I currently have 2x Leopard partitions and a Windows partition on my MBP15″ 320GB stock drive. If I remember rightly -from over a year ago- I just had to format the Mac OS partition (+ install 10.5), use BootCamp to create the Windows partition, resize the Mac OS partition which allowed me to make another partition, then finally edit the boot.ini in the Windows partition (change the Windows drive from drive 3 to drive 4). The XP partition works in BootCamp and in VMWare although it does take a little while longer to boot in BootCamp and I’m not sure why.

Honestly, I either did the above or I created the original Mac 10.5 partition the correct size (the size it is now) and left the rest as free space before using BootCamp to create the Windows partition then Drive Utility to create the 2nd MacOS partition. Finally I edited the boot.ini in Windows. My memory is not what it was!

Going to put 10.6 on one of the partitions over the holiday season – fingers crossed…

]]> By: Hejde http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375568 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:11:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375568 I have been partitioning for years (all the back to a 10MB Profile) – I have a system partition, a user (work) partition and a parallels partition on my probook and iMac (i7). I have found it easier to keep “crud” out of the system and have had fewer errors from this approach. It is also easier to update or change system, when personal data are on a separate partition. Backup is easier too and I can restore a partition without influencing the rest of the disc.

Having a 1TB hard disc with one partition can get complicated in a hurry.

ymmv

peace

hejde

]]> By: HD http://gigaom.com/2009/12/07/the-case-for-partitioning-your-macs-hard-drive/#comment-375567 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:30:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36814#comment-375567 Seems the same to me: http://www.macworld.com/article/144115/2009/11/partition.html

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