<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><div>Just an opinion...</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>My / partition rarely uses more than 6G so 10G ought to be ample even w/ both KDE and Gnome DEs installed.</div><div>My swap is at least 2xRAM</div><div>My /home is whatever I need for files, but should probably be at least 2G for all the local config files that are generated.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div>Paul</div><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Vic Main" <vmain@shaw.ca><br>To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 3:51:28 PM<br>Subject: Partition size and No. Reccomendations<br><br>Hi:<br><br>I've been trying to make sense (cents) of the different partitions <br>being recommended by different sources.<br><br>One source says 4, another 3, and even just 2. (a 10GB for /, a 2GB <br>for swap). One says 10GB is enough for the whole install, another the <br>whole 100GB drive is necessary.<br><br>I have a 2 Gig swap, a 2 Gig boot, and a 30 Gig and 10 Gig both <br>unassigned, and finally a 110 Gig ntfs partition on a second drive<br><br>It does seem that Ubuntu has access to all of the ntfs drives, so any <br>material I need to store can go there??<br><br>I'm dual booting with windows XP.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Vic<br><br><br>-- <br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br>ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users<br></div></body></html>