[muglo] Re: Partitioning 80 GB drive for Tiger
- From: Leith Peterson <leithriver@xxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:04:51 -0500
>On Jan 10, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Leith Peterson wrote:
>>
>> 1. Does each partition have to have a copy of Tiger on it in order
>> to function?
>
>No.
When I first bought this used G4, it had a partitioned drive for OS 9
and 10. However, it is a very small drive and so I bought the second
80 GB drive and use it exclusively. One of the other reasons I don't
use the smaller drive is that, since I erased everything on both its
partitions, I can't copy anything to it. Your explanation about the
"master" and "slave" drives probably accounts for why I haven't been
able to.
>
>> As I also understand
>> it, I should not store anything else on the bootable clone because it
>> may cause the backup software not to work properly. Do you agree
>> with these points?
>>
>
>Not sure. I know CCC can do incremental back ups and SuperDuper
>likely does as well. Not sure how it would interfere. Likely all
>you would want to back up are your critical files and occasionally re-
>clone the system.
I've heard that Time Machine can act strangely if anything is stored
on the drive other than the automated backup. But Time Machine is a
Leopard product and I'm just moving over to Tiger now. Perhaps this
reported problem only relates to Time Machine and not other backup
software.
>
>I have a similar machine. Your G4 comes with cabling already in place
>for a second drive. Rather than partition your current drive I would
>add a second drive, cost shouldn't be that much <$100 depending on
>size. You should be able to use a drive up to about 120 GB without
>partitioning. Should you get a larger drive (e.g. 250 GB) I think
>there is a limit of 128 GB for the first addressable partition for a
>larger drive if you plan to use them as the boot drive. You may have
>to adjust the jumper pin on the back of the second drive to slave
>rather than master. If the main drive does go and you have cloned
>your master drive to it you should be able to choose it on start up -
>can't think of the command off hand, and be up and running with your
>last saved (cloned) system. I would suggest a documents folder that
>you create for all your work which you could then save daily to the
>second (slave drive) as a back-up.
>
>Martin
That's a really good suggestion, Martin. I should just replace the
smaller drive with a larger one for cloning/backup purposes.
Thanks,
Leith
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