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Volume Manager
Adding Volumes
Adding a volume to Mac Disk allocates space for the
volume on the disk and creates the volume statistics that
appear
in
the volume directory.
If your Mac Disk
is
not already partitioned into
volumes, you should add a system volume for yoW" Mac
Disk System software and additional volumes for your
documents and applications.
Detennining the Number of Volumes
The number of additional volumes you need depends
on the number of applications, folders, and documents
you have to store and the way you want to store them.
You can think of Mac Disk as a filing cabinet that can
be partitioned
in
a nUlnber of ways.
It
can have one or
two very large drawers with a large number of
documents per drawer, or it can have many small
drawers and a few documents per dravver. Obviously, it
will take less time to find what you want if you can go to
a small drawer and search through a few documents.
The more applications
I
folders, and documents you
have on a !'vIae Disk volunle
I
the longer it
\vill
take the
Finder to retrieve what you wan
t.
You will get the best
performance
if
you partition the wlac Disk into many
small volumes, each containing about
40
documents.
WARNING:
5-8
It is dangerous to have nl0['e than
200
documents on a volume, especially if you have
a
128K
Macintosh.
Under eer'win
circun1stances.
the Finder can lock
yOll
out of your data.
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