03-13-2007, 09:16 PM
If you use DiskWarrior or Drive Genius, etc...
You can make a small Rescue partition (5G or so), and boot from it much faster than to booting from a CD.
I do this for every HD that has an OS. Very handy, a big time saver. Of course, if there is a mechanical problem, it would affect both partitions. And there could be a time that the directory or something is so fouled up the HD won't mount, or you can't boot into even the Rescue partition. Then you *have* to use the CD.
But to do some routine maintenance or run Disk Utility to repair a disk (not permissions) a Rescue partition is very handy.
Other than that, I wouldn't bother partitioning for any other reason.
You can make a small Rescue partition (5G or so), and boot from it much faster than to booting from a CD.
I do this for every HD that has an OS. Very handy, a big time saver. Of course, if there is a mechanical problem, it would affect both partitions. And there could be a time that the directory or something is so fouled up the HD won't mount, or you can't boot into even the Rescue partition. Then you *have* to use the CD.
But to do some routine maintenance or run Disk Utility to repair a disk (not permissions) a Rescue partition is very handy.
Other than that, I wouldn't bother partitioning for any other reason.