[MacDV] Formatting my hard drive

[Mark M. Florida]

I would recommend a 40 - 60 GB partition for the system and apps, and the
rest for media storage.  Or you can get a separate drive altogether, and put
your system and apps on one and your media on the other.  (Do you really
need Norton?  Why muck up a good system?)

2 cents.

- Mark


On 12/2/03 8:51 AM, Paul Williams at mulder at fred.net wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm not sure this message is appropriate for this forum, if not, i apologize.
> 
> I have a dual processing G5 on order. I like to partition my drives.
> Question is, of the 160G drive that comes with the machine i don't
> know how big my partitions should be.
> 
> Generally i like to keep the OS, the apps and files on separate
> partitions. How big should my OS partition be? I'll be loading apps
> such as FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Norton and adobe. I read here somewhere
> that certain apps need to reside in the same directory as the OS
> (???).
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Also, does anybody know of similar forums (like this one) where i can
> discuss OSX issues?
> 
> Paul Williams
> 
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