This is very similar to my client setups.<div><br></div><div>I give Macintosh HD 20GB on 80GB drives, 40GB on all others.</div><div><br></div><div>I strongly recommend using a Restore partition unless you have a robust network and a netboot server. Even if you do use netboot on site, having a restore partition can get you out of a jam with a mobile user on the road.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/7 Bryan Vines <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkvines@wgclawfirm.com">bkvines@wgclawfirm.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">David,<div><br></div><div>We began exploring the idea of having the user data on a separate partition for the same reason -- future OS upgrades will hopefully be less painful. We have been using a three-partition scheme: Restore, Macintosh HD, and Data.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our partition sizes are:</div><div> Restore: 15GB</div><div> Macintosh HD: 30GB or so</div><div> Data: The rest of the drive.</div><div><br></div><div>We've found we need at least an 80GB drive to allow the users about 30GB of space. We deployed a few Tiger machines with this partitioning scheme, but then we went ahead and switched to deploying Leopard (mostly because of laptops which would only run Leopard).</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>User homes go on Data, so if the main boot partition ends up hosed, we can restore it from our standard configuration and get the user up and running again with a minimum of fuss.</div><div><br></div>
</div><div>We're now moving our older installed base to Leopard. We have to go touch each machine, either to repartition its hard drive or install a larger one. We're hoping we won't have to do that when Snow Leopard rolls around.</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Bryan Vines</div><div><a href="mailto:bkvines@wgclawfirm.com" target="_blank">bkvines@wgclawfirm.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">From: David Lundgren <<a href="mailto:david.lundgren@brooks.edu" target="_blank">david.lundgren@brooks.edu</a>><br>
Subject: [Casper] Upgrading from Tiger to Leopard<div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>I was wondering how you all have done migrations from Tiger to Leopard.<br><br>We have an Active Directory setup where the users home directories are local<br>
to the machine (our faculty often have 10GB+ of data, and some have<br>laptops).<br><br>We were contemplating doing separate user and OS partitions at the same time<br>to make any future OS upgrades less painful, without having to worry about<br>
user data.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>David Lundgren<br>IT Systems Administrator<br></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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