Ubuntu 12.10, separate drive to Win - manual partitioning, feedback please

[David]

Hi,

I've googled and read, and again, and as a newbie to partitioning am
going to take the plunge and install Ubuntu 12.10 by partitioning
manually during install.
Please let me know what you think of the following:
I have Windows already on sdc, plus a free 500Gb hdd (sdb) for extra
storage, plus a 1.5Tb drive solely for Ubuntu (showing up as sda).
I am planning to have mount points for root and home, will give home
30Gb (though I prob'ly won't end up installing anything like that much
in programs).
Both of those will be primary, and located at 'beginning', and file
system ext4.
I will tell it to put the boot loader on sda [the Ubuntu drive]. (And
I'll adjust drive boot order in BIOS.)
Q: swap area: I have 4Gb RAM - should I give 4Gb or 8Gb to swap area?
Q: Should swap area be located at 'beginning' or 'end' of its
partition? Swap area will be 'logical'.
Q: Should shared 500Gb storage drive be ntfs or FAT32?

12.10 doesn't seem to allow an automatic install onto a separate drive
in a dual-drive machine - I seem to remember that was possible with the
installer for 10.04. So I am hoping I can do the partitioning for the
first time.

Thanks for your time,

Dave
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