🚀 go-pugleaf

> I might get flamed for this, but there is no approved way of
> getting partitions in the Mac OS. Apple hasn't rewritten the
> part of the Finder that deals with volumes ever since they
> wrote HFS.

So?  The Finder has nothing to do with partitioning.  What is considered
to be a disk drive by the Finder ( and everything else ) is determined
by what the various disk drivers choose to stick in the drive queue and
post disk insertion events for.

If disk driver X sticks 4 entries in the drive queue, the Finder has no
way of knowing that these are for 4 different parts of the same disk.
They are 4 disks to the Finder.

> 
> Some partitioning methods are less dangerous than others;
> SUM is one of the more dangerous, while SilverLining or
> MultiDisk are a couple of the least dangerous...
> 
> --- Alex

What do you see as dangerous about these various systems?  Do you
consider AppleShare to be dangerous?  How about having multiple AppleShare
volumes mounted?

						Tim Smith