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Tony Hall <news@tonyhall.prestel.co.uk> wrote:

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> As my Mac is a 68k I'm unable (I think) to use HFS+ so any
> recommendations as to the best way to partition and organise this new
> beast would be great?

68040 Macs can use hfs+, but the boot partition on 68040 Macs must be
hfs, not hfs+.

I've got 4 mounted HD volumes (two discs) on my desktop and I think more
than that would be a right pain.  My volumes are used thus:

1 for OS and applications
1 for user documents
1 for internet applications and junk I download from out there in
network land.
1 (internal HDD) for backups

The reasoning behind the partitioning is that: it's nice to keep the
boot volume unfragmented and so on; user document files (here, anyway)
tend to be quite small so reserving a small partition for them seems
sensible; and a separate volume for junk that I download also seems to
make some sort of sense.

And four disc volumes means if a volume's damaged beyond fixing, I can
do a backup and reformat (not low level) just copying files across to
another volume.

> Are there any advantages (speed, ease of use, features etc) to various
> 3rd party formatters? I believe the provided software is a licensed
> version of 'Formatter One Pro' by Software Architects, I've never heard
> of these (tho' I'm about to hunt them out on the web) but is there
> superior formatting software out there?

Who knows?  It's not the formatting itself that's terribly relevant, but
the driver software.  As far as I can tell, all the third party Mac
formatters claim to have more reliable and faster drivers.  Given that
they don't say what this is compared to, I think it's safe to ignore the
claims of the sellers.

I expect someone has some real info on this, but not me.

Rowland.

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