In another thread related to ReiserFS, it has been mentioned that it is a good idea to put various items in their own partitions or even discs! This is fine if you have lots of discs or partitions handy.
On my iBook, I have theoretically got up to 15 partitions (is it possible to have 16 if only the Mac stuff goes in there?), but the first 8 are taken up by MacOS rubbish (removal is not an option at this stage), so I am left with 7. If I use 2 for MacOS 9.0.4, then I have only 5 left, of which two are used for bootstrap and swap. Now I am left with a mere three partitions. Not much room! Is it safe or reasonable to put a swap file in the bootstrap partition? I think security could be maintained by mounting (I don't know of any way of using a swap file without mounting the partition) inside of a suitably protected directory, and the partition would probably want to be mounted synchronised, but I would like to know if there are any problems with this idea. I could reduce MacOS to one partition, but the thing needs a theraputic re-install so often that this might not be too brilliant an idea. Other suggestions are welcome! Cheers, Kin Hoong _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
