Hard disk partition suggestions

[mdk-frodo]

Ok I'm a week on linux and I'm loving it I see no point on going back to windows but

as I don't have the CD of my XP I have to leave C: the way it is so

here you have :

C: NTFS about 15GB this can't be remove

so you have left 65GB

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current setting is :

C: NTFS 15GB

D: FAT32 10 GB may be

E: NTFS 30GB may be

/ Linux not sre

/home Linux 3GB

swap ( I have 512MB RAM )

 

anyway I have 80gb total so tell how whould set it.

Oh I want

C: untouched

may be leave a fat32 to share with windows incase

rest linux

 

 

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

[arctic]

my suggestion:

c: 15 gb winxp

d: 10 gb win/linux exchange partition, fat32

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/swap: 1gb (i prefer having enough swap left in case i upgrade my ram later)

/root: ~5gb, ext3

/home: rest of space, ext3 or reiserfs

[polemicz]

There have been many posts and threads on this issue here, I'd recommend that you check them. It's a pretty complicated and idiosyncratic process on deciding on partitions. As a rule make sure you have a separate /home. If you are going to try different distributions you may want a separate partition for your data files. As I do that I keep a minimal /home partition and have separate ones for other stuff. But do check the other threads for opinions. You will also get into issues of what file system to use, most folks do either ext3 or Reiser. It probably only makes a difference in special situations. You may not need that extra NTFS partition, but it all dpends on what you will be doing with each distro. Good luck.