Re: Partitioning hard drives...

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:14:38 +0100, Simon Dalley wrote:

rich wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:30 +0100, Ian Rawlings wrote:

On 2008-06-23, rich <rich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

All the rest is divided up into ext3 data partitions. If you do any video
editing its worth having a NTFS partition for big video files. I also have
a small fat32 partition which is shared with a winxp virtual machine.
Hmm, how big are your files? ext3 can handle a file up to 2 terabytes
in size, although with a 1k block size it'll only handle 16 gigabytes
in a single file.

Or is there some other reason for using NTFS for large files? I'd
have thought ext3 would be better as it's actually supported ;-)


You are of course correct, its more to do with the software I use (win vid
editor running in wine) that seems to balk at big files unless on my ntfs
partition. I find that ntfs-3g works fine and is handy for my portable usb
hdd that gets shared with a windows box.

As a matter of interest, which video editor do you use under wine? Would
you recommend it? Native video editors under Linux are one area that's
definiely not quite there yet ...
Simon

Have to say I do 99% of video work in my windows box, as you say because
of video editors but also because of my old ATI capture card.
Some years ago I went to entirely .mpeg based files / editing and need
a streaming editor that does not recode.
For the odd cut and join in linux I can use womble-vcr. I can't really
recommend it as it is short on features but it is wonderfully quick and
frame accurate. This is the one I had trouble with when I wanted to scrub
through big files on a ext3 partition.
In theory Avidemux should do the same job but I have had some odd results
from this when it comes to editing. Its ok as a converter but thats not
what I need. I have tried other windows video editors under wine, most
don't work.
I've updated to wine v1 so maybe I should try again. Tried a few of the
linux editors in the past, cinellera, lives, even the late mainconcept.
All want to re-render perfectly good video, takes forever. Perhaps they
have improved, I'll have another look when my windows box dies and I make
the move to 100% linux.

--
rich
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