Installing Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Andrew P. Burgess wrote:

>   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.
> Thanks, everyone for your help; one more quick thing: I decided to do 5GB
> each for the root and home directories. I booted from a live CD, opened
> gparted and shrunk my 10GB ext3-formatted partition in half. Then I tried
> to make a new partitions for the other 5GBs. I got a message saying I can
> only have 4 primary partitions and make an extended one instead. I poked
> around gparted trying to do that, but I couldn't figure out what to do; I
> deleted my other 5GB primary partition, and remade it, but "extended
> partition" and "logical partition" were grayed out in the partition type
> box. Thanks for your time; I'd appreciate a few tips on what to do! Andrew

If you already had 4 primary partitions, then shrinking one doesn't actually
help you - you actually need to _remove_ one, change it to an extended
partition, and create logical partitions within it.  imo, it's easier to
create one primary for Windows (if you must...), one for swap (not really
necessary that it be primary), and an extended partition for everything
else - then split that however you want (mine's actually an LVM).
-- 
derek