Advice on Partitioning ?

[Donn]

> I'll do some reading at the referred sites in the hope of getting a
> better idea how to do it and more to the point what it all means.
Partitioning is a pretty fundamental thing - it leaves you with a hard 
drive 'cut up' into sections. My stress always goes through the roof when I 
have to do it because it's not something that happens all the time, only 
every few years when I happen to get a new drive.

I think, if you don't mind wiping your data (please backup first), your best 
bet is to boot off the Gutsy (or whatever) CD and do what you did before, 
only this time use the partitioning wizard that comes up during the install 
process. I think it has help too.

Use howard's advice on sizes etc.

These are my settings:
Partition 1 18Gb, mount point / (which is root), Type ext3 (which is a good 
choice for the filesystem type)
Partition 2 1Gb, mount none, Type swap (the swap file has it's own type)
Partition 3 XXGb (the rest), mount point /home, Type ext3

Then continue with the install.

*IF* you want to dual-boot with Windows, then you *must* install Windows 
first. I can't recall how Win handles partitioning, it should be part of the 
deal on installation. You could make all the partitions needed for Kubuntu at 
that time (from Windows setup) too. Just make one extra one for the Windows 
C: drive.

NOTE:
After 3 "primary" partitions, things get horrible. One has to create "virtual" 
partitions within one of the primaries. So, if you are going with Windows 
too, then you need 4 partitions, so divide your first partition into two and 
make one / (root) and one swap.

You should expect to do this several times before you get a clue :)
You should also expect to then forget it all until next time. 
Repeat :)



HTH
\d



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