Basic Partitioning Guide?

[SteVe Cook]

andy baxter wrote:
> Michael Stanziano wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I'm about to do a full install of Ubuntu (Feisty) on a 100gig drive - 
>> the first time I've been able to devote a drive of this side to Ubuntu.
>>
>> So, I'm looking for some general advice for a partition scheme.  
>> Nothing to complicated, just want to be able to keep my user and 
>> application stuff safe if i want/need to do another reinstall of the 
>> OS later.
>>
>> Any advice will be appreciated -- thanks!
 >
A friend of mine is using the following set up, which works rather well.

In a primary partition 10MB for /
In an extended partition 2MB swap, 60MB /home and 10MB for a copy of /
20MB unallocated.

The copy of his root partition is just in case he really buggers 
something up and will have Feisty left on it when gutsy arrives until 
he's sure every thing is working OK. The unallocated area he uses to try 
out other distros.

Steve