[MacDV] FCP4 = Reformat Drive

[Gary Fujihara]

40GB is not a lot to work with when dealing with your OS and digital video.  I have a 
60GB drive in my PB17, 2x250GB internal in my DP G5, and both have consumed over 
40GB just for OSX Jaguar and my apps.  Remember that partitioning, while organizing 
your workspace, will slow down access to files and may introduce more fragmentation 
(particularly if using large files within relatively small partition spaces). So your idea to 
have OSX Panther and Apps on an internal drive (along with OS9) would be a good one, 
and having an external firewire drive contain your documents and media.

Fujmon
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken <ken at schneider.net>
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:46 am
Subject: [MacDV] FCP4 = Reformat Drive

> ... For me anyway.  My problem is that I have my main 40GB drive 
> partitioned into 4 volumes - OSX is 8GB, OS 9 is 2GB, Applications 
> is 
> 10GB, and Documents is 20GB.  Plus I have a few other drives for 
> media 
> in my G4 Sawtooth.  Not a big deal unless you want to use Final Cut 
> Pro 
> 4.  Everything needs to be on the OS X partition and there is 
> something 
> like 14GB worth of stuff to install.  I guess when I upgrade to 
> Panther 
> I'll end up doing 3 partitions - OS X at 24GB, OS 9 at 2GB, and 
> Documents at 14GB.  Then I'll install all my apps in the 
> Applications 
> folder in OS X instead of in its own partition.  Does this sound 
> about 
> right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -= Ken =-
> 
> 
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