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.<br><br>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? <br><br>/Pär<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/2, Andrew P. Burgess <<a href="mailto:apb@live.ca">apb@live.ca</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 15px;" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Compose message area"> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"> <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Century Gothic"></font> </div> </blockquote> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"><span class="q"> <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2">>>What I would do is boot up the Ubuntu live cd and use gparted to prepare the disk.</font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div></span> <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Great! I formatted the partition in ext3 and it showed up as available in the install. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font face="Century Gothic"></font> </div> </font></div> <div>>>I believe you've not told the installer that you want to use this partition as the root partition (normally signified as /)</div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">After formatting the partition, I was able to tell it which partition I want to use.</font></div><span class="q"> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div> <div>>>That looks way too small. It needs just about that in /boot, to be able to<br>hold the current boot image and one to replace it at the next upgrade. <br>Then you need room for, at least, /etc, /bin and /sbin, plus whatever space<br>is required for /usr, /var and /home if you don't put them on their own<br>partitions. My root partition is currently using 266MB, so I can't see it<br>being much less than half that for a minimum _if_ you have /usr and /var on<br>separate partitions. If you don't, /var can easily require many GB (var is<br>extremely flexible since it holds all the log files, caches, and mail<br>spool, so policy can make a huge difference to the size it will need),<br>and /usr should probably be at a bare minimum 3-5GB.</div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div></span> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">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? </font></div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">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?)</font></div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Thanks to everyone who replied; I've almost got it, and I'm learning a lot!</font></div> <div><font face="Century Gothic" size="2">Andrew</font></div></div> <br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>