What are the advantages to partitioning my hard disk?
There are two main advantages to partitioning: speed and file size. If you are able to partition your hard disk so that temporary files and the applications that create them are in one partition, and more permanent files and the applications that create them in another partition, you are diminishing the time the Mac has to wade through fragmented files to read them. By keeping the applications and their files together, you keep the “problem” in one spot as opposed to keeping the files in one parti-tion and the applications in another. Some users keep a maintenance partition so they can repair system problems in the working partition and still use only one hard disk. The second reason is file size. The Mac divides any hard disk into a given number of divisions, which is the minimum space to which a given file can be written. The larger the disk capacity, the larger each division. If a smaller capacity hard disk requires 10 k minimum per file versus a 20K minimum per file on a larger dis
