Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!hawk!chai From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Soft partitioning of HDs Message-ID: <1991Mar21.215144.11579@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> Date: 21 Mar 91 21:51:44 GMT References: <1991Mar21.195504.13129@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept Lines: 9 I think it might be good to point out at this juncture that soft partioning is strongly discouraged by MacUser because it puts all the files in a "partition" as a single invisible file on your HD so if anything goes wrong, you're in serious trouble trying to recover the data. Ian Chai chai@cs.ukans.edu 2fntnougat@ukanvax.bitnet