Novice query: Installation Help

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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Bahn, Nathan <nathan.bahn at gmail.com> wrote:

> using the defaults.  You have copied your data, haven't you?

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
wrote:

> to make it easier to ever re-install linux, if you at least create a
> separate "/" and "/home" partitions, all of your personal STUFF is in
> your /home/USER_NAME folder. I have reinstalled the same OS, and
> installed other OSes ( Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu) on the same computer,
> and never lost my thunderbird email, or my favorites.. you can use say
> 20Gb for "/" and use the rest for /home..

> tell the installer to use the Manual procedure and you can designate all
> sizes for each partition. Don't forget a swap partition..

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:25 AM, chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:

> /12gig
> /home as large as possible
> /temp = ram
> /swap = to ram
> /var 15gig.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> 2048 MB - swap
> 30 GB - /
> 10 GB - Home

> Create a partition for the remaining size mounted under /Data - where I
move
> all the multimedia files, this way I can share any media files over the
> network, without the need to share files / folders under my Home.

> To use LVM you need the Alternate Installation ISO. You'll need to use i
if
> you intend to add HDDs in the future to create storage for different uses
-
> Video, Documents and so on.

> 2013/10/1 Bahn, Nathan <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> You mean that you will not be dual-booting with Windows or anything
> else? OK, that makes life easier.

> Disk vendors like to use decimal units; this lets them pretend that 1
> GB = 1,000,000 bytes, because that makes their products look bigger.

> Computers use binary arithmetic and thus units are in binary, in
> powers of 2. Here, a gigabyte means 1,048,576 bytes. (Sometimes you
> will see KiB and MiB and GiB - the "i" indicates we're talking about
> binary units, not decimal ones.)

> Ubuntu is quite small. 16GB is a round number in binary and is a lot
> of space for software.

> With 2GB of RAM, you don't really need any swap space at all. If you
> want to be able to use hibernation, though, you'll need some - at
> least as much as you have RAM. If you want thus, 2GB of swap should be
> plenty.

> No, you don't really need it. It is helpful on servers but overkill on
> an ordinary PC or workstation.

> I'd suggest

> 16GB primary, set as / (that means the root filesystem, in other
> words, your boot drive)

> That leaves 214GB. Make an extended partition using all this space.

> In that, create a 212GB partition for /home.

> Format both these as ext4.

> Then use the rest of the space in your extended partition for 2GB of
> swap. This has its own special format.

> Some have suggested 12GB - that is enough, but it's not a round number
> in binary, which is why I suggest 16 -- no other reason.

> Others have suggested 30GB - that is way too much. You will waste
> about 90% of the space.

> The old guideline for swap was 2 x RAM but that is over-generous these
days.

> If the machine is a desktop and you won't be using hibernation, then
> if it was me, I would go without a swap partition and install a
> program called "swapspace" when I was done. This creates a swap *file*
> on your boot drive just when needed, like Windows and Mac OS X use.
> This allows a simpler disk layout. But with 2GB of RAM, it should
> seldom be needed.

Well I get to know that they measure like 1024 units. And some pretend to
show bigger sizes!

Since I don't need to dual boot (right now), I would be using the entire
disk space for Ubuntu LTS 12.04 only. Also, I don't have the network, so
nothing is required to be shared. Said that, I guess the best scheme should
be like this (since no network sharing is required but only a pretty simple
PC with Ubuntu):

/ = 16 GB
/home = 212 GB
/swap = 2 GB

and if anywhere I need to select anything, it is 'ext4' and manual
partitioning scheme.

I have to understand know 'hibernation' before using it!

Apart from it, I would like to thank all of you and especially for making
me remember to take the back-up! I burned the .iso image yesterday and
meanwhile I was just playing with the CD in the live mode and seeing Ubuntu
in the PC. It had an object 'Install Ubuntu to Hard-disk' (or something
like that) and thank God I didn't click that, since I had not taken the
back-up at that moment. I felt a reason to clarify in lists (about
installation) before installation and thus saved my precious data too! Had
I installed yesterday Ubuntu, I would have lost all of my data which now
has been copied to an external hard drive.

Thanks.
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