[xubuntu-users] disk partitioning help...

Ralf ranfyy ranfyy at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 08:16:35 UTC 2013


2013/11/27 Gary Charvat <g.charvat at snet.net>

> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
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> I am in the process of blowing-away the MS-WindowsXPpro OS on my unused HP
> Pavilion dv8000 CTO laptop.  I am almost up to the point of installing
> Ubuntu/Xubunto 13.19.  I have past experience with UNIX in the AIX, BSD,
> and SCO arenas, but it has been some time since I’ve gone in and configured
> disk partitions.
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> I am reading “Ubuntu Made Easy” and the section on partitioning does not
> include anything when dealing with multiple Disks.
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> My system has 2 separate disk drives – Drive #1 (C: in DOSeze) has 74.32
> GB – Drive #2 (D: in DOSeze) with a total of 148.85 GB.
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> I would like to configure the system with partitions for:
>
>          /root
>
>          /swap
>
>          /home
>
>
If you use no root (just sudo) /root doesn't need that much space:
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ranf at tosh:~$ sudo du -sh /root
[sudo] password for ranf:
88K     /root
ranf at tosh:~$
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>
> My prior experience would be to give /root and /swap equal partitions on
> Drive #1 of 37.16 GB each. And reserve all of Drive #2 for my /home
> partition.
>
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