Partition size and No. Reccomendations

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

Just an opinion... 
For workstations/laptops, I generally use only three partitions; one for /, one for swap and one for /home. Long ago, I had a partition for /var, but unless you need to leave LOTS of room for log files, no need. This makes it quick to upgrade/install or backup the system...just save/backup /home. 


My / partition rarely uses more than 6G so 10G ought to be ample even w/ both KDE and Gnome DEs installed. 
My swap is at least 2xRAM 
My /home is whatever I need for files, but should probably be at least 2G for all the local config files that are generated. 


I suggest deciding which OS you will use most and devote more space to file storage using that OS' native filesystem (ntfs for XP or ext3/4 for linux). There are several available options for reading ext3 fs from XP. FWIW I have a 160G drive on a laptop that dual boots w/ XP (which I rarely use anymore). XP is on 30G (sda1=ntfs), / is ~10G (sda6=ext4), swap is 8G and /home is ~105G (sda2=ext3 - the remaining space available on the disk). I store all my files for both OS' on /home. (I put grub in the disk's MBR.) 
Paul 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vic Main" <vmain at shaw.ca> 
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 3:51:28 PM 
Subject: Partition size and No. Reccomendations 

Hi: 

I've been trying to make sense (cents) of the different partitions 
being recommended by different sources. 

One source says 4, another 3, and even just 2. (a 10GB for /, a 2GB 
for swap). One says 10GB is enough for the whole install, another the 
whole 100GB drive is necessary. 

I have a 2 Gig swap, a 2 Gig boot, and a 30 Gig and 10 Gig both 
unassigned, and finally a 110 Gig ntfs partition on a second drive 

It does seem that Ubuntu has access to all of the ntfs drives, so any 
material I need to store can go there?? 

I'm dual booting with windows XP. 

Thanks 

Vic 


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