Issues with partitioned drive

[Rick Lang]

[Mark Dobson] “So my question is how do I keep my new Lion / FCP X drive discreet from the rest of the drives on my MacPro?”

Mark, I thought from your original post, you installed Lion (and FCP X) on one partition (or “volume”) of an internal drive that has three partitions. When you want to isolate FCP X from the rest of your system(s), you can boot from the partition in which Lion is installed. You can still see all your other partitions and other drives even when you boot from the Lion partition and that can be useful if you want to refer to data on other partitions and drives such as your media files. But when you boot into the Lion drive, you effectively isolate FCP X when you load it from that partition. FCP X (and other Applications programmes on that boot partition) will appear in the Finder as part of the “home” for the account you used when you booted into the Lion Partition. No need to unmount or remove your normal ‘primary’ drive.

You are right, you can run any application from any other part ion or drive, but your results may not be perfect as Mac OS expects your programmes to run from the boot drive and all library references for example will either refer to /Library or /Library, etc.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB