Partition size and No. Reccomendations

[Steven Susbauer]

On 9/3/2010 2:51 PM, Vic Main wrote:
> 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.

The bare minimum you should use is something like 10gb for / and a swap 
that is at least equivalent to the amount of ram on your system 
(especially if this is a laptop which may hibernate), preferably 1.5 
times or so.

> 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

Your boot partition is a lot larger than it needs to be. Even a 100mb 
boot partition is a bit overkill but much more reasonable. This 
partition is only used to hold the kernel and some bootloader stuff. 
Since your 30 and 10 gig are unassigned, I would use the 10 gig for the 
system root and the 30 gig for /home, since the system itself generally 
is not that big - it's usually your personal files that take up the space.

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

You can store files on the NTFS partition but it is not suggested you 
store things there instead of a Linux partition. You should really only 
use that for things you specifically want to share between Windows and 
Linux.