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Partitioning: an evolving topic

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Partitioning

An evolving topic...

At present both my desktop and laptop are set up in a similar manner.

• Boot Partition 1: OS X Server

A bootable OS X Server partition with only the Apple OS X Server System installed, no USERS and as few added programs as possible.

 

• Boot Partition 2: Macintosh HD

A dual-boot partition of OS X 10.2 and OS 9.2.2 with ALL the Mac OS 9 and OS X.

On the laptop this partition also includes everything else. On the desktop, as this partition is rather small, all of the third-party and add-on OS X applications and utilities AND all Users are installed on another disk which is a mirrored RAID. Note: if the application installer wants to put stuff in /Library - (fonts, application support, what have you, then I install it onto the boot disk, and move the main part of the application to 2nd disk.

 

On the desktop both of these partitions are on a single 18GB disk

Server 6.5GB - 3GB used

Macintosh HD 10GB - 7GB used

The third disk is a pair of 80GB disk drives set up with OS X Disk Utility to be a mirrored pair which contains my home directory, iTunes library, digital work - images, movies, etc.

On the laptop there are only the two partitions:

Server - 5 GB

Macintosh HD - 35 GB

The larger partition contains my home directory, some tunes, digital work - images, movies, etc.