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voldenuit: well, as of right now I plan on putting Tiger on when I get it and that should before I get the laptop. Anyways....

I am a partition king, heh.. the computer I am on now (A dual PIII 1Ghz) is my main computer right now (not counting my dell notebook I am selling this afternoon)... I will be turning this machine into a server but right now I have seperate partions for my homes, boot, system, and what not.. then again there are 4 HD's in this machine as well.

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Originally Posted by voldenuit

I run my production system on one partition and use the other to prepare the next version, twiddle it until I am satisfied, then just change the standard boot partition.

I do the same thing. But on an external disk drive.
I have found that I always eventually fill up my internal drive. My current iBook drive is (nominally) 80GB. Had I partitioned that into two 40 GB partitions, I would already (after 5 months) be down to a mere 10 GB on my boot partition. That would be okay, but after another few months and I might be down into the getting-nervous level of only having 5 GB left. (I consider 2 GB free disk space to be a bare minimum for OS X.)

And note that OS X's "Hot File Clustering" (http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme...zations/#THREE) only works on the boot partition.