[MacDV] Formatting my hard drive

[Richard Dalziel Sharpe]

Paul
Some applications demand to be put on the startup volume and in general 
they clearly state during the installation process or this is explained 
in  the "Read Me" that comes with them.
A good place to research is the Apple Discussion Boards on the Apple 
support pages. I spent many fruitful hours there before I got my G5 
dual. As well as the hardware there are many other discussions on 
software. Don't be frightened when you read these though, as most of 
the people who post there have problems and most  Mac buyers and users 
never have any of these glitches.
Like me.
For what its worth I have two internal drives and a Firewire external. 
The internals are 120 &160 gig and the external 80. The 120 is used for 
all Apps, the OS and all of my normal installed stuff. The 160 is in 2 
partitions one of approx. 10 gig which has all of the loops for Sound 
track and a large collection of other sound files. The other partition 
I use only for Video; captures and all of the relevant stuff for FCP, 
iMovie, Compressor etc. This is wiped clean after a project is 
completed. The external Firewire is partitioned into 2 volumes and is 
used to backup my G5 and my wifes iBook. I do this with Carbon Copy 
Cloner each week.
Kind regards,
Richard Dalziel-Sharpe Australia.

On 03/12/2003, at 1:51 AM, Paul Williams 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
>