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[Resurrection Man]

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Life is too short to waste on these wretched machines, and I should know - I've wasted enough of mine on them.

but who is currently pondering taking the plunge and dual-partitioning his iMac so he can run Mountain Lion as well as Snow Leopard.

[Dave2002]

but who is currently pondering taking the plunge and dual-partitioning his iMac so he can run Mountain Lion as well as Snow Leopard.

I have, or will have, access to machines with these OSs. Currently I have access to Snow Leopard and to Lion. I'm not upgrading the SL machine to L or ML, as I want to maintain some backwards compatibility. However, I may very well try to run Mac OSs using virtual systems, such as VMWare, Parallels or VMBox (free). I have run Ubuntu within SL using VMBox (very easy), and Windows XP within VMWare. I will probably buy a new machine with ML in the not too distant future. At work we run Boot Camp with Win XP and SL, though this configuration is currently being upgraded.

[Resurrection Man]

My rationale was to have SL on one partition with my legacy apps that only run on it. Then on a daily basis run ML in the other partition. The drawback as I see it it that my 640GB disk is currently 400GB full. Of this, 200GB is my iTunes library and 10 GB my iPhoto library. So this would only leave me around 200GB for ML and then I'd also have the problem of whether or not I could access both libraries from ML..I suspect not.

However, I think a much more elegant solution would be to have SL and legacy apps on an external hard drive and simply boot up from that when I need it.

[Dave2002]

My rationale was to have SL on one partition with my legacy apps that only run on it. Then on a daily basis run ML in the other partition. The drawback as I see it it that my 640GB disk is currently 400GB full. Of this, 200GB is my iTunes library and 10 GB my iPhoto library. So this would only leave me around 200GB for ML and then I'd also have the problem of whether or not I could access both libraries from ML..I suspect not.

However, I think a much more elegant solution would be to have SL and legacy apps on an external hard drive and simply boot up from that when I need it.

That's interesting. I'm not sure how easy it is to use SL on an external drive, and also to boot up from that. Is it possible? If it works I could be interested.

Yet another solution is to put your 200 Gbytes iTunes library on an external drive - which is what I've now resorted to. I bought several drives cheaply last year, and the price has not been matched since. However, Amazon now has a 1 Tbyte drive for around £75, which seems good value - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Ultr...4362671&sr=1-1 I'm tempted, but perhaps I should get my network drive working first.

[Bryn]

That's interesting. I'm not sure how easy it is to use SL on an external drive, and also to boot up from that. Is it possible? If it works I could be interested.

Yet another solution is to put your 200 Gbytes iTunes library on an external drive - which is what I've now resorted to. I bought several drives cheaply last year, and the price has not been matched since. However, Amazon now has a 1 Tbyte drive for around £75, which seems good value - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Ultr...4362671&sr=1-1 I'm tempted, but perhaps I should get my network drive working first.

I recently bought one of those Samsung 1TB drives and I seems to be pretty good. It even comes with its own leather pouch. Restricted to USB2, but that's all I have on mu laptops anyway.

[Resurrection Man]

Booting up from an external drive is not an issue at all. I run SuperDuper as an secondary backup on an external drive and I can boot up from that copy if I want to. Its a clone of my system.

If you have you library on an external drive then do you have a separate backup regime other than Time Machine?

[Dave2002]

If you have you library on an external drive then do you have a separate backup regime other than Time Machine?

I think you can back up more than drive using Time Machine, but to make it work you need a big enough drive to take everything.

I have several drives (750 Gbytes) and currently my iTunes library is still only around 250 Gbytes. It's not impossible to copy the library given several hours and a spare machine or two. I use a 1 Tbyte drive for Time Machine, but it's not big enough to store everything. I do have larger drives, but they're not so convenient.

In the limit I still have the CDs. I'm waiting for drives to get even bigger, faster and cheaper.