[MacDV] Re: Formatting my hard drive

[Paul Williams]

I'm actually getting two drives (both 160GB) and on the first would 
be the system in one partition, apps in the second, and the third 
would be for everything else.

I was going to dedicate the second drive to nothing but video media files.

No Norton? What do you recommend as a good disk utility?

Thanks for the advice!

paul

>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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