[Discussion] Hard Drive Partition Sizes

[D Burch]

Isn't that the truth. I keep all of my important data on flash drives. 
Since using the Mac Mini and its whopping 80GB drive I strive to keep 
40-50 GB free at all times.

Don

On 3/5/10 7:57 PM, Ray Davison wrote:
> Jim Hughes wrote:
>>
>> One caveat (and possibly an aside) is;
>> That, if you run Win 2k, XP,, etc. on the same machine and have 
>> "pinball.sys" installed to give Windows access to HPFS partitions, 
>> the largest HPFS partition can only be a maximum of 8 GB. This is 
>> from various things I've read and experience with a variety of machines.
>
> There is another practical limit to partition size; it should only be 
> a big as you are willing to back up.
>
> Ray
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