Is it possible to hide certain partitions from finder?

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freaky

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I would like to hide a few partitions on my hard drive so I don't see them in the sidebar in finder. Is there anyway to do this?
 
Partitioning is a waste of time (unless you're a developer) and causes more headaches than it's worth.
 
Randman said:
Partitioning is a waste of time (unless you're a developer) and causes more headaches than it's worth.
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That is not necessarily true - there are many good reasons to partition a disk.

For example, you might partition your computer's hard disk so that you can use one volume as your startup disk with your applications and working files, and the other as a place to back up or archive files.
 
A partition used as a backup or archive is a pretty bad idea. Hard drive goes bad, all is gone.
 
bobw said:
A partition used as a backup or archive is a pretty bad idea. Hard drive goes bad, all is gone.
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Well, opinions do vary - but i copied and pasted the

"For example, you might partition your computer's hard disk so that you can use one volume as your startup disk with your applications and working files, and the other as a place to back up or archive files."

directly from an Apple knowledge base article.


There are many other good and acceptable reasons
to partition a hard drive - which was the point i was trying to make.
 
There is really not any logic in this. Its kind of like buying several one drawer file cabinets, stacking them on top of one another, then bolting them together to form a large cabinet. What is the point? If one drawer catches on fire, they all will burn.
Partitions are really only good for seperating operating systems and the like. But like Bob says, once the drive goes, it takes all the partions with it.
 
From my time in the darkside I remembered a rule: when you partition e.g. a 80GB drive into 4 seperate 20GB partitions, c:, d:, e: and f: the c partition will be the outer ring of the disk platter and have a higher through put as opposed to the f: partition.
However, I would always keep at least 2 paritions on one disk since I don't have a firewire drive but only a network fileserver. Just few days ago when I changed my panther system into tiger I enjoyed emptying one partition, erase - install tiger and set it up while my panther partition was fully functional.
This is worth to take this admittedly not so logical step.
 
THAT is a good use of partitions. Seperate operating systems....anything else is just more work and a waste of time IMHO.
 
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