[ubuntu-in] question about Partition-Swap VISTA-LINUX

Sat Jan 30 02:42:16 GMT 2010

I use 200 GB and 2 GB Ram.
WinRe: 1.5 Gb
C: Vista 52 Gb
D: Linux 24
E: swap  2.4
F: data  107 GB

now i using Vista & Linux together without any problem but i want reinstall
my Vista again & i think my harddisk partition is not good and I do not know
the right type of partition in that situation.

You can have only two primary partitions and the rest need to be under
a logical partition.
I think we can have 4 Primary partitions.

*I'm sure that my current partition is not good.  see it again. i use the
Fdisk -l in terminal: *

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         192     1536000   27  Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   *         192        6948    54272000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            6949        9987    24410767+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            9988       24321   115137855    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            9988       10352     2931831   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6           10353       24321   112204800    7  HPFS/NTFS

But my Vista partiton showing:
 My Current partition:
 1. WinRe(EISA Configuration) Primary
 2. c: Vista  Primary
 3. d: /Linux primary
 4. e: Swap  primary
 5. f: data     Logical driver

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mehdi,
>
> Your mail is a bit confusing but here goes
>
> am not deleting anything from your original mail but am putting my
> replies inline.
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Mehdi <akrinar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear friends
> > Already i install The Linux-Ubuntu 9.10 on my Laptop. It working now but
> it
> > showing the error on the Linux which( the Hard disk fails because of bad
> > sector and it showing that replace your hard-disk) I disable the
> > notification and i worked on it without any problem.
>
> >  but i want install everything from first.
>  meaning you want to install Ubuntu Linux afresh , all over again.
>
> >
> > Note: I install the Linux on the Vista
> >
> Did you install Linux from within Windows using WUBI ??
>
> > My Current partition:
> > 1. WinRe(EISA Configuration) Primary
> > 2. c: Vista  Primary
> > 3. d: /Linux primary
> > 4. e: Swap  primary
> > 5. f: data     Logical driver
>
> from this i am again assuming that Ubuntu has been installed from
> within - please confirm that is so
> >
> > I use the recovery Cd to install the vista and automatically it install
> the
> > WinRe and Drive C:Vista after that we can add the any partition, I can
> not
> > remove the WinRe partition and i must have it in future which whenevery i
> > want recovery my Vista i need it.
> >
>
> Ok no problem with that.
>
> > But may i ask you that:
> > 1) Is it necessary to have the Swap partition?
> > 2) What is the best type of partition in that situation?
>
> Now my queries to help you out better.
> A.
> How Much HD Space do you have ??
> How much is used by Win Recovery and Wistaa
>
> How much is used in F: Data
> B. Swap - depends on how much RAM you have. other can say how useful
> SWAP i think putting aside a reasonable about is good. The norm is 2
> times what your RAM is (so if your RAM is 1 GB your SWAp should be 2
> GB) this can be lowered if you are not doing intensive app usage.
>
> C. Using WUBI is nice and easy to setup but in the long run does not
> make for a happy experience so have you considered dual booting Ubuntu
> with Linux
>
> As yo already have Wince RE and Wistaa installed you can ver easily
> install Ubuntu and make it truly dual boot.
>
> If you do this
>  suggest the following partitions
> Already Existing :
> 1. Wince Re(EISA Configuration) Primary
> 2. c: Vista  Primary
>
>
> You can have only two primary partitions and the rest need to be under
> a logical partition.
>
> I have no idea what your HD looks like, or what size it is so cannot
> suggest anything deinite
> however if you can make a largish primary partion you can make the
> following partions _ using gparted from th live ubuntu CD just before
> starting the actual installation
>
> Extended Partition
> data     Filesystem NTFS
>
> /boot - 100 MB
> SWAP - twice RAM
> / or /root - 4 GB for a very basic install and 8 gig for a more full
> fledged one and 12 15GIG for an install where you will never want
> space
> /home - as much (as big) as you can make it.
>
> What this basic partition does is stores all your user data in /home
> and keeps it from the vagaries of your Operating System located in
> /root. /boot controls your boot up and is good to keep seperate since
> it allows for better management.
>
> My partition table which is dual booted looks like this
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              21G   15G  5.6G  73% /media/IBM_PRELOAD  -
> WInce Expee OS which came on the machine - i have deleted the recovery
> as its not needed
> /dev/sda2              20G  109M   20G   1% /media/SharedT6N - a
> shared drived to store wince expee data
> /dev/sda7              22G   12G  8.9G  56% /  where linux Ubuntu
> Operating System is Located
> /dev/sda5              99M   37M   58M  39% /boot -
> /dev/sda9             165G   86G   71G  55% /home - my data sections
> SWAP                  6 G                               i have 3 G of RAM
>
> hope this helps
>
> ram
>
> PS -  wince expee , wistaa, wince RE are not trademarks and not
> registered to any one and may be used instead of the more commonly
> used names from the great company that is called M$ or some such. If
> you use a pirated version i suggest not telling anyone about it. After
> all you would then be a criminal ;-) and hence better to hide.
>
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