Good Afternoon,
I will be changing out the hard drive on my Mac Mini (2005) from 80 GB to one of 320 GB. I have already upgraded (this spring) the OS to Leopard and increased the memory from 512 Mb to 1 Gb.
Also, recently, I have purchased a 1TB desktop external drive and use Time Machine to back up. I hope to modify the backup frequency using Carbon Copy or Super Duper in conjunction with Time Machine. I have successfully used Carbon Copy to partition the new drive into 3 volumes using an external OWC case and Firewire. I have entitled and sized (approximately) the volumes as Leopard 160GB, Panther & Classic 40 GB and Data 100 GB. The present 80 GB HD has been cloned using Carbon Copy into the Leopard volume.
The Mini is used by the whole family so there are five user accounts. My account is also the administration account. The teenagers have lots of photos and music and other teenager stuff.
My intention is to have the OSs in their own volumes i.e. Leopard in one, Panther & Classic in the second and have the third for data in a Data volume. I believe in this way that a) I can access the data from either OS so wont double up the data. 2) If one OS has problems I still can access the data and also use the other OS. I am undecided whether to reserve a volume for Windows, should I?
I have several major questions
1) When in either OS and say Documents is selected will the OS know to go to the Data volume?
2) Will the Applications stay with the OS volume?
3) What about itunes and iphoto will their music and photos be saved in the OS volume or the Data volume?
4) Am I going about this wrong?
5) Should I partition using other volume sizes?
6) What would the OSs reed to run if all the data is kept in its own volume?
7) Will each user have their own area of the Data volume or will everyone have access to all?
I can still re-partition and re-clone if necessary.
I have searched the Internet and have found a lot of information on Partitioning and using different OSs but no specific answers to my questions. It may be obvious to the persons that do so but unfortunately it isnt to me!
Thank-you.
Sincerely,
Gerardus
I will be changing out the hard drive on my Mac Mini (2005) from 80 GB to one of 320 GB. I have already upgraded (this spring) the OS to Leopard and increased the memory from 512 Mb to 1 Gb.
Also, recently, I have purchased a 1TB desktop external drive and use Time Machine to back up. I hope to modify the backup frequency using Carbon Copy or Super Duper in conjunction with Time Machine. I have successfully used Carbon Copy to partition the new drive into 3 volumes using an external OWC case and Firewire. I have entitled and sized (approximately) the volumes as Leopard 160GB, Panther & Classic 40 GB and Data 100 GB. The present 80 GB HD has been cloned using Carbon Copy into the Leopard volume.
The Mini is used by the whole family so there are five user accounts. My account is also the administration account. The teenagers have lots of photos and music and other teenager stuff.
My intention is to have the OSs in their own volumes i.e. Leopard in one, Panther & Classic in the second and have the third for data in a Data volume. I believe in this way that a) I can access the data from either OS so wont double up the data. 2) If one OS has problems I still can access the data and also use the other OS. I am undecided whether to reserve a volume for Windows, should I?
I have several major questions
1) When in either OS and say Documents is selected will the OS know to go to the Data volume?
2) Will the Applications stay with the OS volume?
3) What about itunes and iphoto will their music and photos be saved in the OS volume or the Data volume?
4) Am I going about this wrong?
5) Should I partition using other volume sizes?
6) What would the OSs reed to run if all the data is kept in its own volume?
7) Will each user have their own area of the Data volume or will everyone have access to all?
I can still re-partition and re-clone if necessary.
I have searched the Internet and have found a lot of information on Partitioning and using different OSs but no specific answers to my questions. It may be obvious to the persons that do so but unfortunately it isnt to me!
Thank-you.
Sincerely,
Gerardus