Originally posted by testuser
This last bit is my own opinion: making partitions is worthless. I can only think of two exceptions: you want to make a small 200 Mb partition for an emergency OS 9 boot disk, or a large multi-GB partition to store Digial Video files. For the majority of people (myself included) it is best just to use one partition. Why?
* You don't run into problems like this with shuffling partitions to avoid running out of space.
* It is possible to get the same level of organization by using folders, as it is making partitions
* An emergency partition is not really necessary because: all Macs that run OS X can boot from CDs (OS 9, OS X, Diskwarrior, etc) and be repaired, and the Mac OS 9 CD allows you to connect by ethernet to other volumes for backup
* There are no major speed, performance, or other benefits to partitions (other than having a completely clean partition for importing DV, as I had mentioned previously)
Others will disagree...