[xubuntu-users] disk partitioning help...

[Steven Verner]

The general rule of thumb is to give your swap double your ram.


On 11/27/2013 10:14 AM, Bruno Benitez wrote:
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> 2013/11/26 Gary Charvat <g.charvat at snet.net <mailto:g.charvat at snet.net>>
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>     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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