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Ask HN: OS X Partitioning Advice
Hi All,
I just upgraded my drive in my MacBook to a 500gb hybrid from Seagate as well as 8gb of RAM.
I am looking for partitioning advice. I know there are some work arounds that need to be done to accomplish this and I just don;t know the best approach.
I need:
-1 large snow leopard partition. My main partition.
-1 small Windows 7 partition
-1 small partition for "OS X Developer Previews"
(obviously I cannot voilate any NDA's)
I don't really want to run virtual machines for Windows, but if I did, then this becomes easy as it is possible to run multiple OS X versions and I have done this many times.
I know that if I decided to throw in a small Linux partition (which I would only use once in a great while for testing) that it complicates even more.
Advice is appreciated.
- mishmash 16y agoDepending on your usage ~20GB should be enough for Windows - but you'll want to get it right because resizing an NTFS volume is a pain (with something like WinClone). The second OS X partition, I don't think there aren't any DPs other than 10.6.5 that have been released to Mac Developer Program members (unless you're a Select or Premier?) and you can always install and use the included reversioner.... now 10.7 will be a different story when it comes along, but another ~10GB should be enough. I would put the rest of your disk to the main partition. You can startup the Mac from your boot DVD or find a Snow Leopard image and an external drive somewhere to use Disk Utility to repartition. edit: of course repartitioning will erase the drive, so backup carefully. edit2: actually, Disk Utility does have non-destructive partition editing but it hasn't worked the two times I've tried it, giving an error about unmovable files or something, but it might still be worth a try.