On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@(protected):
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> >
> > sda1 -> /boot = 50MB
> > sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5%
> > of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.)
> > sda3 -> /var = 2GB
> > sda4 ==extended
> > sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB
> > sda6 == Windows drive C:
> >
> > Any and all comments and ideas welcomed.
>
> Any particular reason to put windows at the end of the drive? This should
> however not be a problem, it you partition the space at the beginning of
> the disk *before* installing XP (eg, doing (c)fdisk from a livecd).
>
> On my laptop, I partitioned as follows:
>
> hda1 -> windows (23GB)
> hda2 -> extended
> hda5 -> /boot (50MB)
> hda6 -> swap (2GB)
> hda7 -> /home (45GB)
> hda8 -> /   (remaining space, ~10GB)
>
> I don't need a separate /var. Do you have special requirements to keep it
> separated?
> On the other hand, I like to use a dedicated partition for /home. This is
> useful because you can share your home folder among different distros
> (in case you have more than one installed), and, more important, if you
> need you can wipe / and reinstall without touching /home (probably
> saving /etc and something else beforehand if you want...but still
> quicker than backing up several GB of data, which you are forced to do
> if you have /home on /).

Great inputs. I'm going to use a 10GB partition for /home, a 40GB
partition for data shared with XP, and a 1.3GB /var partition. My
reason for keeping /var on it's own is that I sometimes run into
programs that spew so much stuff into /var that they will fill up the
partition. If that happens then I cannot log into X until I clean it
up. It's just what I do.

I put in a 2GB swap partition. It's not 2x memory but I really think
it's unlikely that I'll need it. If I do then I'll size down the data
sharing partition which I'm putting at the end of the drive and put it
out there.

Thanks,
Mark
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