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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma">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.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>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. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>Thanks for your time; I'd appreciate a
few tips on what to do!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>Andrew</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>