If you have a rogue program that’s writing data constantly to your drive (without your knowledge), partitions will prevent that program from filling your entire hard drive the program will encounter an error when it fills the volume it’s writing to.And oh yea, the actual boot partition, of course (named
#Partition to test final cut 10.4 pro
As seen in the above Finder screenshot, in addition to my test partitions, I have partitions for music, video, applications (those that don’t have to live in /Applications), a couple of storage partitions for personal files, and a scratch (temporary) partition for Final Cut Express and DVD Studio Pro projects. Instead of having a number of folders inside my user’s Documents folder (or elsewhere), I use partitions to separate major types of data. Since partitions are fixed in size, you can’t just pile everything into one of them without any thought for how much space you’re using up. It can enforce good data storage practices., which holds beta versions of OS X that I’m testing. Holds the next-to-current OS X release, and In my case, I keep two partitions available for testing. It’s a good way to run more than one version of the OS. Though this is oversimplifying things a bit, to the operating system there’s no difference between a hard drive and one partition of a hard drive-both appear as distinct mountable volumes to the system. Is nothing more than one smaller piece of a larger hard drive. My dead drive was only a minor problem because, well, to be honest, it wasn’t a drive that died at all. But this article isn’t really about the problem itself, but rather, why it was only a minor problem and not a major problem (besides the fact that I had a current backup, of course). With that done, the drive was again happy and healthy. Disk Utility didn’t show any errors on the drive, and even a directory rebuild withĪt this point, I had no option but to zero the drive (using Disk Utility) and restore my files from the backup I made just before I left on my trip. I could read files from it, but any attempts to write to it failed-either via iPhoto or the Finder. In short, the drive where my iPhoto Library resides was no longer writable. After a bit of troubleshooting, I determined that I had a hard drive problem, not an iPhoto problem. Instead of success, I was greeted with the not-so-pleasant message that iPhoto “couldn’t create” the image on the disk. Upon returning home from a short trip yesterday, I discovered that my desktop G5 had, during my absence, developed a problem-I was unable to copy some images from my digital camera into my iPhoto Library.
0 kommentar(er)
