Re: 500 MB HD: HFS or ProDOS formating?

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 9 Mar 1999 04:46:26 GMT, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>You do need a ProDOS partition to boot from, but HFS has been very
>stable for me.  I have a 1GB unit and more than 500MB of it are filled
>up.  It works nicely all because I have HFS partitions.  As always, back
>up the drive.  You should also apply the HFS FST patch to ensure a
>stable configuration.  I've used HFS for years and have yet to have a
>single problem.  Recommendation: 2 ProDOS partitions and an HFS
>one for the rest.

Can you say "lucky"?  I knew you could.  By the way, you do know that
the longer it takes to screw up, the worse the damage will be.  :-)

I've had problems arise on ProDOS partitions, I'm still not going to
trust anything important to my HFS partition.  I'll be using my 780 MB
HFS partition sometime in the near future to sort through my several
hundred archive floppies but I'll be keeping all the archive disks
until after I've successfully copied the files back off of the HFS
partition.

Better safe than sorry.

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