Partition benefits . . .

[Stephen Barncard]

Sorry to be contrary, but I don't think another partition is that 
good of a safety net. A second real drive is more reliable in my 
experience.


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>Still there are a couple of situations where the extra OS on separate
>partition comes in handy, even for OSX;
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>1) defraging your startup disc
>2) extremely rare on OSX but if you ever install something and suddenly run
>into problems, being able to restart off the other partition and do your
>days work and worry about troubleshooting the normal partition at a more
>convenient time can be a real "phew" moment.
>3) being able to do work whilst running maintenance - you can't do anything
>whilst AppleJack does it's thing.

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stephen barncard
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