POLL: Fear of dumping rarely used OS9 partition?

[Paul F.]

Yup...
I can see that happening..

Fortunately, I have been lucky enought to avoid that.

ONE day, though..it'll probably happen.

[Grateful11]

I have 3 HD's in my G4 so I haven't had a problem with needing
a few megs here and there. I put OS9 on a 4G partiton of a
40G HD and it still has over 2gigs available on the small
partiton. The 34gigs that is left is used exclusively for
iTunes and has almost 10gigs available on it.

[Harbourmaster]

I still have an OS 9 DRIVE in my QS.

I have more than 40 gigs of applications and games on it that either won't work at all or are much slower running in classic so there they sit.

I wind up booting from this drive about once a month for one thing or another but usually just to play one of the games.

[MacGurl]

I dumped my OS 9 partitions, on various computers here, a couple of years ago and never once missed them. Buh bye!

Kathy

[Silencio]

I don't quite understand the argument for "cleanliness" in placing classic on a separate partition/drive, as it can generally be distilled down to two separate folder at the root level of your regular old Mac OS X drive: "Applications (Mac OS 9)" and "System Folder". Hardly a blight on one's otherwise pristine Mac OS X system.

But yeah: I haven't launched Classic on my G5 in months.

[jimbrady]

> I don't quite understand the argument for "cleanliness"

I'm not sure if cleanliness was my intention when I first installed OS9 and X on the same computer--that was 6 years ago, and X was the thing that was being held segregated (as it was big and new and almost useless to me professionally at that time). Times have changed, but my organizational scheme has followed me on this particular laptop (partly by way of CCCloner).

Thanks for all the insights.