Installing Ubuntu

[Pär Lidén]

Hello, under linux, all users home directories (where all documents and
settings are stored) are located under /home, so you should mount /home to a
separate partition. That's what I've done. On my / partition (including /usr
and /var), currently 4.5 gb is used, but I think I've installed quite a lot
of programs. I have 1 gig ram, and 2 gigs swap, but honestly, that swap
space is quite unneccesary, even if I have alot of programs loaded at the
same time, my memory usage has neve been above 600 megs. So I've never
actually have had any real use for my swap. Usually they recommend swap
space twice as big as ram, but I would say that if you total swap + ram = ~
1.2 gigs, that's enough, say 512 megs ram, 700 megs swap, 1 gig ram, 256
megs swap. Like that. But other people might recommend other things.

I say you'd want at least 4 gig for the / partition (probably 5 or 6) to
give room for temporary files, log files, and future programs you might wish
to install. That leaves around around 4 gigs for /home. How much ram do you
have?

/Pär

2008/1/2, Andrew P. Burgess <apb at live.ca>:
>
>
>
>  >>What I would do is boot up the Ubuntu live cd and use gparted to
> prepare the disk.
>
> Great! I formatted the partition in ext3 and it showed up as available in
> the install.
>
> >>I believe you've not told the installer that you want to use this
> partition as the root partition (normally signified as /)
>
> After formatting the partition, I was able to tell it which partition I
> want to use.
>
> >>That looks way too small.  It needs just about that in /boot, to be able
> to
> hold the current boot image and one to replace it at the next upgrade.
> Then you need room for, at least, /etc, /bin and /sbin, plus whatever
> space
> is required for /usr, /var and /home if you don't put them on their own
> partitions.  My root partition is currently using 266MB, so I can't see it
> being much less than half that for a minimum _if_ you have /usr and /var
> on
> separate partitions.  If you don't, /var can easily require many GB (var
> is
> extremely flexible since it holds all the log files, caches, and mail
> spool, so policy can make a huge difference to the size it will need),
> and /usr should probably be at a bare minimum 3-5GB.
>
> I've got 10 GB to use; I'd like to put the Linux equivalent of "My
> Documents" on a separate partition, formatted so both Linux and Windows can
> read/write to it. I think that'd be FAT23, right? Or is there a better
> option? Also, what folder do I mount to the "My Documents" partition?
>
> And what's the suggested size for the root partition? If I should make a
> swap partition, how big? (And I mount /swap to the swap partition, right?)
>
> Thanks to everyone who replied; I've almost got it, and I'm learning a
> lot!
> Andrew
>
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