[xubuntu-users] disk partitioning help...

[Bruno Benitez]

2013/11/26 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:
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>          /root
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>          /swap
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>          /home
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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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What i personally do is give swap about 6GB, i've never found a reason for
more on a standard setup. the rest of the main disk i would give to / and
the second hard drive i would give to /home.


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> Does anybody have  any better configurations for this situation – I would
> greatly appreciate your input and comments.
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> Regards,
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> Gary
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