Partitioning Advise

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themacko

Barking at the moon.
Basically, a girl sent I know from a class sent me an email asking how she should partition her computer's drive. I don't have any idea, so hopefully one of you guys could help a brotha out.

"an 80g drive in a G4 dp with 750+meg ram i do not need directions for how to do it but some idea as the sizes of partitions and where what should go

i have OS X OfficeX OS 9.2 Virtual PC5 Mathematica Photoshop
Illustrator and many other non-X applications. i read&write CDs and with superdrive in the G4 will probably soon play and write DVDs. i have found many contradictory opinions on the internet on the subject for example:

1. dont bother partioning no advantage just waste of time
2. make 3 equal partitions one for OSX one for OS 9 and one for all apps and data
3. small say 1g for OSX 1g for OS 9 ?g for virtual memory 4g for virtual PC scratch space for photoshop and CDs and DVDs
5. put all X-apps with OSX in one partition and non-X with OS9 in other partition and of course the question of format HFS versus HFS+ and if there is any need to even bother with HFS format anymore

i am sold on the idea of partitioning and its benefits in reducing backup space, reducing defragmentation time and in general a more managable enviroment but what is the most logical combination?

thank you in advance fo your response"
 
My advice:
Make a 5Gb partition for OS 9 and all Classic applications
Make a "reasonable" partition for OS X and all applications - I'd say something between 15 and 20Gb will do for a few years...
Now, use the last partition to dump all your personal photos, movies, music, iMovies+++

That will prevent you from loosing much by reinstalling OS X, it will show OS 9 as an option when you boot with [alt] held down and it'll give GOOD room for all that personal stuff...
 
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