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Need to update OS High Sierra to Catalina For TurboTax
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1902625" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Well, technically what Apple said is partially incorrect. A partition can contain more than one Container, and a Container can contain more than one Volume. In fact, a hardware device can have more than one Partition, with more than one Container with more than one Volume. So, theoretically, if you have a 2TB drive you can turn it into two Partitions, one, let's say, of 250GB, one of 750GB and one of 1TB. Then you could format the 250GB as APFS, the 750GB as APFS and the 1TB as APFS. In the 250GB partition you have one Container and can create as many Volumes as you want to share that 250GB. In the 750GB you create one Container of all of the space, namely 750GB and then again have a couple of Volumes to share that 750 GB dynamically. Finally, on the 1TB partition you create two Containers, each 500GB and each with one or more Volumes in them to share the 500GB in each Container. So, the flexibility is there, but that approach gets overly complex pretty quickly. No need to do all of that when you can have ONE partition on the drive, ONE container on the drive and as many Volumes as you may need sharing the 2TB. About the only reason to have more than one partition is if you want to have an exFAT partition, or NTFS partition to support Windows, which works for older Intel Macs, but not for the new Apple Silicon.</p><p></p><p>Just a reminder, Apple gives away the OS. The last one they charged for was Lion. Not that they are not trying to generate revenue, but in the case of the OS, they support it to sell hardware, not the other way around like MS does. As chscag said, sooner or later Apple will drop Rosetta2 and no longer support Intel applications, just as they dropped PowerPC apps and 32 bit apps. You can stay behind as long as you are happy, but your software may move on to "better" and you won't be able to keep up if you are too far behind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1902625, member: 396914"] Well, technically what Apple said is partially incorrect. A partition can contain more than one Container, and a Container can contain more than one Volume. In fact, a hardware device can have more than one Partition, with more than one Container with more than one Volume. So, theoretically, if you have a 2TB drive you can turn it into two Partitions, one, let's say, of 250GB, one of 750GB and one of 1TB. Then you could format the 250GB as APFS, the 750GB as APFS and the 1TB as APFS. In the 250GB partition you have one Container and can create as many Volumes as you want to share that 250GB. In the 750GB you create one Container of all of the space, namely 750GB and then again have a couple of Volumes to share that 750 GB dynamically. Finally, on the 1TB partition you create two Containers, each 500GB and each with one or more Volumes in them to share the 500GB in each Container. So, the flexibility is there, but that approach gets overly complex pretty quickly. No need to do all of that when you can have ONE partition on the drive, ONE container on the drive and as many Volumes as you may need sharing the 2TB. About the only reason to have more than one partition is if you want to have an exFAT partition, or NTFS partition to support Windows, which works for older Intel Macs, but not for the new Apple Silicon. Just a reminder, Apple gives away the OS. The last one they charged for was Lion. Not that they are not trying to generate revenue, but in the case of the OS, they support it to sell hardware, not the other way around like MS does. As chscag said, sooner or later Apple will drop Rosetta2 and no longer support Intel applications, just as they dropped PowerPC apps and 32 bit apps. You can stay behind as long as you are happy, but your software may move on to "better" and you won't be able to keep up if you are too far behind. [/QUOTE]
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