I'd just like to point out that despite the axiomatic language in which it's presented, Starmac's assertion is just an opinion—one that's widely shared, no doubt, but one that's hardly universal.
Partitions are organizational structures, between drives and folders in magnitude. If one has no clear need for them, there's no reason to use them. But it's a tad presumptuous to declare preemptively that other folks' reasons for using them are ill-conceived.
Nice interception, saved me from having to do extra fielding duty... thanks. [seems some of us remember the "partitioning wars" from the early MacFixIt days.
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Anywho... I got inspired by this thread, so i went to Office Depot yesterday and blew a few Hamiltons on a Lexar.
Here are some details.
$ df -h /Volumes/FlashBoot
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s2 15Gi 7.9Gi 6.7Gi 54% /Volumes/FlashBoot
$ vsdbutil -c /Volumes/FlashBoot
Permissions on '/Volumes/FlashBoot' are enabled.
$ sudo du -hxd1 /Volumes/FlashBoot
Password:
288K /Volumes/FlashBoot/.fseventsd
16M /Volumes/FlashBoot/.Spotlight-V100
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/.Trashes
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/.vol
186M /Volumes/FlashBoot/Applications
3.9M /Volumes/FlashBoot/bin
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/cores
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/dev
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/home
425M /Volumes/FlashBoot/Library
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/net
0B /Volumes/FlashBoot/Network
4.5G /Volumes/FlashBoot/private
2.6M /Volumes/FlashBoot/sbin
2.1G /Volumes/FlashBoot/System
16M /Volumes/FlashBoot/Users
428M /Volumes/FlashBoot/usr
4.0K /Volumes/FlashBoot/Volumes
7.7G /Volumes/FlashBoot
$ time diskutil verifyVolume /Volumes/FlashBoot
Started filesystem verification on disk1s2 FlashBoot
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking extents overflow file
Checking catalog file
Checking multi-linked files
Checking catalog hierarchy
Checking extended attributes file
Checking volume bitmap
Checking volume information
The volume FlashBoot appears to be OK
Finished filesystem verification on disk1s2 FlashBoot
real 0m18.654s
user 0m0.019s
sys 0m0.014s
That verify came in under 20 seconds... not bad. It has been DiskWarriored and iDefragged to death though [and the time for "
sudo du -hxd1" was probably over 3 minutes actually.]
Anyway, once we measure all the hidden stuff too (seems i have a fat 4 gig /var/vm/sleepimage file to accommodate), i think trying this on a 8 gig disk would be way too tight.
i probably should note that (out of habit mostly), i kept
Swedish as well as English language folders on disk, so that might account (somewhat) for my items being larger than other folks.
