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Re: Speaking of disk and other names

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In article <51W5y0sPNk52-pn2-ZiRzB9cROw9d@localhost>, John Varela
<newlamps@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 03:22:09 UTC, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2015-01-21 21:02:37 +0000, Michelle Steiner said:
> > 
> > > My computer is named "GayDeceiver", the startup disk is "Dora", the
> > > backup disk is "Pixel", and the printer is "Libby".
> > 
> > And my computer has seven accounts, Adventures, Encounters, Endeavors, 
> > Escapades, Exasperations, Explorations, and TaliesinSoft, the first one 
> > being my regular user account and the last one my administrative 
> > account.
> > 
> > In addition to the built in iMac disk, I have four external drives, one 
> > containing three partitions, Cowboy, Campfire, and Sunset, another also 
> > containing three partitions, Midnight, Sunrise, and Sunset, and two 
> > single partition externals, Ascension and Descension. Two of the 
> > partitions are for nightly SuperDuper! backups, and two are for Time 
> > Machine backups. The remaining partitions are for special storage.
> > 
> > And, yes, I have no problems keeping it all straight!    :-)
>  
> I'm not nearly so imaginative in naming drives, but I don't want nor
> have a problem remembering which is which. The drive in my iMac is 
> named "System". The 4 TB Firewire drive is named "Time Machine". The
> two USB drives that are used for alternating clone backups are named
> "Superduper" and "Dupersuper". And there is one extra USB drive with
> three partitions: "Snow Leopard", "SL Time Machine" (yeah, I know, 
> don't bug me), and "Archive". That last drive is almost never 
> powered up.
> 
> The LAN is a little more interesting. My main iMac is "Gandalf". My 
> wife's Macbook Pro is "Arwen". The old 17" iMac running 10.6.8 down 
> in the dark, dank basement utility room is "Gimli". Gimli is 
> connected by a short ethernet cable to the Verizon-supplied router 
> named "Gollum". Wi-fi is turned off on Gollum. In the garage at the 
> end of a 25-foot ethernet cable is the Airport Extreme, "Shadowfax".
> The Airport Express range extender is "Treebeard", and the iPad is 
> "Aragorn". The names are all mnemonic in one way or another.

The names of my hard drives / partitions are very simple:

   - "Mac OS X" for the system disc and OS X applications
   - "PowerMac G3 266" for the OS 9 system and applications
   - "Storage" for downloads, 'play' files, etc.
   - and another one with my business name for work files

Then there's three of USB sticks - two uses to backup my work files
(business name with "Backup" appended) and one used to transfer files
to other locations (an Imation Nano called "Nano").

Plus the G4 MacBook with it's hard drive called "MacBook G4".

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Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-21 14:02 -0700
  Re: Speaking of disk and other names Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-21 13:16 -0800
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-21 16:25 -0700
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-01-21 18:19 -0800
  Re: Speaking of disk and other names TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2015-01-21 21:22 -0600
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2015-01-24 02:28 +0000
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-24 18:40 +1300
        Re: Speaking of disk and other names Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-01-25 08:14 +0100
          Re: Speaking of disk and other names Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-01-26 09:39 +1300
  Re: Speaking of disk and other names Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-22 06:26 -0800
  Re: Speaking of disk and other names M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2015-01-22 09:51 -0500
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-01-22 08:01 -0800
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-01-22 10:53 -0700
  Re: Speaking of disk and other names Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 12:20 -0500
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-01-22 17:36 +0000
    Re: Speaking of disk and other names Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-01-22 17:45 +0000
      Re: Speaking of disk and other names Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 15:04 -0500

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