Re: Max Size

[scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft)]

abrnic@SCTUSY1.SCTCORP.COM writes:

>Hi Ian,

>Just wondering I heard a few people talk about having a HFS partition.  But the
>GS can't boot from it right.  Because I would love to my hard drive one 
>continuous partition.

A few people have been asking me here and there about the pros and cons
of having one big partition vs lots of smaller ones.  I am on the side
of having lots of smaller partitions.  If you plan things right,
it always works out better than having one big one.

	1.	Every partition on my hard drive is bootable.  Something
		bad happens to the partition I'm booting from, I can
		reboot and hold down the number key of a different
		partition.

	2.	I have a 20meg backup partition on my 220meg drive.
		I can keep it offline (thanks to RAMFast SCSI card)
		and if something important gets wiped out, I have
		another copy, and it's only a Finder file-drag away.

	3.	After my partitions have been optimized, only
		my auxillary volume (where I keep temporary work
		files) gets fragmented.  The other partitions
		stay more or less contiguous, and I don't lose
		any speed waiting for the drive head to seek
		all over a 220meg platter to read a file.

	4.	Things just stay more organized when they're
		seperated.  Easier to manage.  And with the
		alias packages existing and coming out for
		the GS, I won't even have to click open my
		partition icons any more.

My partitions are Pegasus (10meg boot), Apps (AppleWorks, AWGS, modem
programs, etc), Audio (MODZap, NoiseTracker), Visual (SuperConvert,
Platinum Paint), Dev (Hyper-C, other programming langs I never use),
PCT (PC-Transporter), Games ('nuff said), Aux (downloading volume,
scratch files), Backup, and I have 4 megs left over for whatever
else I want to do later.  I know for sure that the files I was 
supposed to work on in AppleWorks (about 3megs worth) won't be
physically sitting in the middle of some of my MODs.