Partition Strategies

[Tom Mckay]

Keep in mind your swap partition should be at minimum 1.5 times your ram.
This will ensure zero hassles in hibernation.
Also, in regards to your shared partition request, I would suggest you
simply use a NTFS partition. This will enable read/write access from both
operating systems with the added protection a journalled filesystem
provides. I would then create an fstab entry to mount a folder from your
NTFS drive into your /home directory, for convenience's sake.

Make sure you install windows first, leaving adequate space for linux
unpartitioned, and then install linux. Windows has a nasty habit of
overwriting the MBR on drives, and it will erase the GRUB boot loader linux
uses.

Best of luck, let us know if you have any issues. Be sure to back up
important files before partitioning, because accidents happen.
Tom McKay


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Andy Boersma <andy at boersma.ca> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> My 386i net book has 1.5GB of ram. Windows XP and Ubuntu
> Ubuntu 32 bit uses 1GB so I use ram as swap. I have .5 GB as swap
> 8 GB partition / for OS and apps
> 16 GB /home for users.
> I am using 9.04 beta and configured it as ext4, it is a lot faster.
> 8 GB partition fat32 for file exchange.
> Rest is NTFS for XP.
>
> My AMD64 has 4 GB of ram, so I don't have swap on it.
> 8 GB partition / for OS and apps running 9.04, ext4
> 2 GB partition backup OS, I depend on this machine, so it has to have a
> backup OS to get into it and repair things, it has 8.10, ext3
> Rest for /home for users. Ext 4
>
> I used to have it all in multiple partitions, does not seem to be needed
> anymore.
>
> Andy
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of William Frick
> Sent: April-08-09 10:13 PM
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> Subject: Partition Strategies
>
> Just acquired a nearly new HP tower with a dual core P4. I want to have
> it dual boot to XP Pro and Ubuntu 9.04 and I am soliciting ideas on
> partitioning the drive.
>
> A strategy where both OS can read/write a 10-20 Gb directory. I would
> also like to be able to upgrade the Linux OS with minimal hassle in
> keeping my home directory.
>
> Suggestions anyone ?
>
> Bill
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