Oh I don't plan on booting from it at all. Just using it. but my 320 gig portable hd I plan on reformating to OSx extended journal and seeing how things go. On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> I went back and looked at the article from tidbits. The recomendations from > Matt boil down to on Intel based Macintoshes you should use a specific > partition style if you want to be able to use the hard disk drive to boot > your computer in ememergencies. The article is fairly brief and > entertaining, and is located at: > > http://db.tidbits.com/article/10307 > > > Jon > > On 30 November 2010 15:07, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wht kind of research is needed? the thing is coming probbly this week and all > of this tech jargin is for some reason going over my head. I can't even speak > the partitioning lingo right. lol! > > s > On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > > Hi Sarah, > > I have a 1TB that I split into four partitions. I created two osx > > on the first two partitions and then created two fat32 partitions on the > > last two. I did all of this on the Mac mini. Now I am using this for a > > network storage. > > Later, > > Scott > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami > > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:05 PM > > To: mac vissionaries vissionaries > > Subject: partitioning a hard drive > > > > Hello all. I'm going to be getting a 2 tb hard drive in a few weeks, or in a > > week depending on when shipping cooperates lol! > > > > question: is there a way I can partition 1 tb for something and have it be > > an ntfs drive and another 11 tb partition for something and also have it be > > an ntfs drive? I want to partition on the mac if I can but if I have to go > > to the nameless platform I'll do it. > > > > Take care. > > > > S > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "MacVisionaries" group. > > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
