On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP>: > > > > sda1 -> /boot = 50MB > > sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% > > of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) > > sda3 -> /var = 2GB > > sda4 ==extended > > sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB > > sda6 == Windows drive C: > > > > Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. > > Any particular reason to put windows at the end of the drive? This should > however not be a problem, it you partition the space at the beginning of > the disk *before* installing XP (eg, doing (c)fdisk from a livecd). > > On my laptop, I partitioned as follows: > > hda1 -> windows (23GB) > hda2 -> extended > hda5 -> /boot (50MB) > hda6 -> swap (2GB) > hda7 -> /home (45GB) > hda8 -> / (remaining space, ~10GB) > > I don't need a separate /var. Do you have special requirements to keep it > separated? > On the other hand, I like to use a dedicated partition for /home. This is > useful because you can share your home folder among different distros > (in case you have more than one installed), and, more important, if you > need you can wipe / and reinstall without touching /home (probably > saving /etc and something else beforehand if you want...but still > quicker than backing up several GB of data, which you are forced to do > if you have /home on /).
Great inputs. I'm going to use a 10GB partition for /home, a 40GB partition for data shared with XP, and a 1.3GB /var partition. My reason for keeping /var on it's own is that I sometimes run into programs that spew so much stuff into /var that they will fill up the partition. If that happens then I cannot log into X until I clean it up. It's just what I do. I put in a 2GB swap partition. It's not 2x memory but I really think it's unlikely that I'll need it. If I do then I'll size down the data sharing partition which I'm putting at the end of the drive and put it out there. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
