Will This Work with Leopard?

Question

First off, MBP will have:
200GB HD
4GB RAM
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040716153639236
Is this good?
10GB swap? (too much, too little?*)
15GB OS? *
30GB Applications? *
40GB Bootcamp? *
rest for Users
Recommendations?
Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Partitioning is a personal thing. There is no "right" or "wrong" way to partition a
hard drive. Whether you prefer to bust up your disk into multiple, smaller
partitions, or leave it as a single, monster-sized partition, that's entirely up to
you.

 In either case, no one can claim that you did anything wrong. Because your strategy
depends on what works best for you.
Exceptions: Hard drives that will be dedicated solely for video capture, or digital
media are best partitioned as a single, large partition.
Multiple Operating Systems: If you're going to install multiple operating systems
on the same physical disk, you must create a separate partition for each O/S.
Advantages of Multi-Partition Drives
Advantage #1: A hard drive containing multiple partitions allows you to lower your
drive's effective access time, providing you with a more responsive system.
If you create a partition at the outer/leading edge of your drive and install your
operating system & applications there and use the inner/slower parts of the disk
for storing files that don't require access during normal system operating, you'll
restrict your drive's seeks to the fastest part of the drive.
The first partition you create on a drive will automatically take the leading
(fastest edge). In other words, the drive's read/write heads won't have to seek
to the far end of the drive.This will provide you with a more responsive system by
decreasing the drive's effective access time.
A drive with a larger capacity will notice a more dramatic truncating effect. For
example, 8 gigs is roughly 40% of a 20-gig drive. But it's less than 1% of a
320-gig drive. In other words, you can limit your drive's travel seeks to the fastest 1% of
a 320-gig drive by creating an 20-or 25-gig partition and storing only your
operating system & applications there.
It's common knowledge that a drive with the same amount of data will 'feel' more
responsive on a larger drive than a smaller one, even though both drives may have
the same performance specs.
This is because the data on the larger drive will be limited to a smaller area.
This is also one of the reasons why larger drives feel faster, even though they
have the exact same specs as the smaller one. It's because the larger drive has a
lower effective seek time. Faster linear velocity means that more data passes under
the read/write heads per unit time.
If you have only a single large partition, your program files will wind up being
spread out all over your hard drive as you continue to download and install program
updates. There is no way to stop this from occurring.
Each time you launch a program, your heads will have to seek all over the drive,
including to the far/slow end to retrieve these files, slowing down your system.
Advantage #2: The main reason many people prefer a drive with multiple partitions
over one with only a single large partition is because having a separate system
partition, containing only your operating system and programs, allows you to
reformat your system partition and reinstall OS X without losing all the data on
the drive.
Advantage #3: A drive with multiple partitions allows you to defrag only those
partitions that actually need defragging. This saves wear and tear on your drive,
and may even help keep it from failing prematurely. A small partition can be
defragged in the time it takes to eat a sandwich. OS X will not defrag files
over 20MB or non-system files.
Kj