Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts?
Date	2018-09-23 17:27 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<g0q0neFbg63U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2018-09-22, Matt Simpson <usenet@news.redhorse.me> wrote:
> For years, ever since my first install of OS X, I have partitioned the 
> hard drive on every Mac I owned. I put the OS and its included apps on 
> one partition, and my Users folder, third-party apps, and any other 
> non-Apple stuff on a second partition.
>
> The main reason for this was to facilitate clean install of new OS 
> versions.  I could erase the system partition, clean install a new OS, 
> and point it to my old Users folder.  I would have a fresh OS without 
> any residual crap from the old version, and all my user data was still 
> there.
>
> I might buy a new Mac sometime soon (my mid-2010 iMac won't run 
> Mojave), and that might be a good time to reconsider whether "what I 
> have always done" is still a good strategy.
>
> One problem with my old strategy is a lot of software just assumes 
> everything is on one big system drive, and behaves funny if it's not.
>
> Another is potential wasted space.  Since I can't accurately predict 
> how big an OS will be, and how much a system partition might need to 
> grow after installation, I have to include a generous cushion on the 
> system partition, and that space is not available for other use  As 
> long as hard drive capacities were growing faster than user needs, this 
> wasnt a real issue.  On a 1 or 2 TB hard drive, 25 GB of unusable space 
> was not an issue. On a 256 GB SSD, it might be more problematic.
>
> Does anybody have any thoughts on whether partitioning hard drives this 
> way is still a good idea, or more trouble than it's worth?  Does the 
> system upgrade process do a pretty good cleanup job, so that an OS 
> upgraded from a previous release doesn't have a lot of clutter that 
> wouldn't exist in a clean install?

Definitely more trouble than it's worth. With a Time Machine backup,
clean installing is a breeze. Erase the startup volume, restore, done.
It's literally that easy, and you literally pick right up where you left
off with all system and network settings and user data restored. There's
really no need to separate storage that way.

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JR

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Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Matt Simpson <usenet@news.redhorse.me> - 2018-09-22 10:17 -0400
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-22 10:32 -0400
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-22 22:29 +0000
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-22 19:53 -0400
    Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-23 12:19 +0000
      Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-23 13:03 -0400
        Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-25 12:19 +0000
          Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-25 18:23 -0400
            Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-25 22:38 +0000
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2018-09-23 09:09 -0400
    Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-23 10:03 -0400
      Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2018-09-23 10:32 -0400
        Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-23 10:54 -0400
          Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2018-09-23 10:56 -0400
            Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-23 10:59 -0400
              Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2018-09-23 11:10 -0400
                Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-23 11:19 -0400
                Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2018-09-23 12:49 -0400
                Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-23 13:46 -0400
                Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-23 13:53 -0400
                Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-23 18:26 +0000
        Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2018-09-23 11:48 -0700
        Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-25 12:15 +0000
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2018-09-23 17:01 +0000
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-23 17:27 +0000
  Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-09-23 13:31 -0400
    Re: Mac Hard Drive partitioning thoughts? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2018-09-23 11:50 -0700

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