Should I partition HD on a new DP 1.25???

[designknob]

Wondering what benefit if any there is to partitioning the 80gb drive on a NEW 1.25 machine. It can't boot into 9, so is there any benefit to doing it, other than for organizational purposes?

[mervTormel]

yep. many benefits to partitions. very few disadvantages.

i recommend you analyze your needs.

consider partitions for data, applications, scratch, two OSX partitions, other OS's, VPC, games, music, backups, sandbox testing, etc.

partitions good.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk2s9          7.0G  2.9G  4.1G  41% /
devfs                 1.0k  1.0k     0 100% /dev
fdesc                 1.0k  1.0k     0 100% /dev
<volfs>               512k  512k     0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk2s10         7.0G  5.2G  1.8G  74% /Volumes/banshee
/dev/disk2s11         7.0G  3.4G  3.6G  48% /Volumes/chunder
/dev/disk2s12         7.0G  1.9G  5.1G  27% /Volumes/data
/dev/disk2s13         7.0G  3.4G  3.6G  48% /Volumes/ebola
/dev/disk2s14         7.0G  3.7G  3.3G  53% /Volumes/flivver
/dev/disk2s15         7.0G  4.2G  2.8G  60% /Volumes/gunt
/dev/disk2s16         7.0G  4.6G  2.4G  66% /Volumes/hell
/dev/disk1s9          9.5G  4.0G  5.5G  42% /Volumes/tango
/dev/disk1s10         9.5G  3.3G  6.2G  35% /Volumes/whiskey
/dev/disk1s11         9.5G  6.6G  3.0G  69% /Volumes/zulu
/dev/disk0s9           13G   13G  708M  95% /Volumes/meow