Partition benefits . . .

[simplsol at aol.com]

I agree.
External drives are very inexpensive now.
If you are running OS X you can even boot from an external drive.
You can buy a six-port Firewire hub for about $50 or daisy-chain over 
60 drives.
When I install servers for small businesses I put the OS on an external 
drive. That way, if the hosting server fails, the user can boot any of 
the other computers from that external drive - and it automatically 
becomes the server - with very limited client reconfiguration.
Paul Looney

-----Original Message-----
From: stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Sent: Mon, 7 May 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: Partition benefits . . .

    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. 
 
 > 
 >Still there are a couple of situations where the extra OS on separate 
 >partition comes in handy, even for OSX; 
 > 
 >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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