Kubuntu Partition Suggestions

Averick

Averick

Averick

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Hi all,

If all goes to plan by Tuesday I'll have myself a spare 150GB HDD. I've download the 64bit-AMD Kubuntu ISO and plan to install it on there. During the install phase I'm going to manually set the partition table (I don't like the auto reformat option because I don't know how it's allocating the space, etc.) and I'd like some suggestions from people that have actually used this O/S (or another Linux variant) before as I haven't really got a clue.

One requirement is that I'll want a chunk of it formatted in FAT32 so I can transfer files between Windows and Kubuntu (I'll be dual-booting on the single PC).

I'll just throw some figures out there and tell me what you think:

swap - 5GB
/share (FAT32) - 20GB
/boot - 1GB
/root 124GB

Any more partitions I should allocate for that could come in use? Also I wasn't sure what to select for type of partition for each (Main or Extended)... any help with this?

Thanks for your suggestions,
Averick
 
Personally I'd allocate less to the swap - I tend to use the "twice the amount of RAM" rule-of-thumb.

Also, your /boot partition doesn't need to be anywhere near that size, as most of it would just be wasted space. I'd re-allocate most of that to one of the others.
 
How much Ram do you have in the machine?
I have 1GB and have *never* seen my machine page anything so my paltry 256Mb swap partition is wasted space. I certainly wouldn't allocate 5GB unless you intend on doing some pretty memory intensive stuff.
 
Ok, great. Thanks for your replies, I'll lower the swap to 1GB which is how much memory I have. I'll also make the /boot small... say 150MB? For anyone that's interested I found a site which is quite helpful for deciding this sort of stuff as well, here is it:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

Looking at this I think I'll merge the /share with /root as with FS-Drive windows can read/write to ext2 and ext3.
 
Averick said:
One requirement is that I'll want a chunk of it formatted in FAT32 so I can transfer files between Windows and Kubuntu (I'll be dual-booting on the single PC).

swap - 5GB
/share (FAT32) - 20GB
/boot - 1GB
/root 124GB
Click to expand...


try:

/boot 75M -100M
swap 1G
/root 6G (remember /tmp is mounted on this, so if you split it off, this could be made smaller) althouh in my experience tmp doesn't get used much?
/usr 10G
/var 10G
/home remaining space

I Like to leave around 5-10 G free space to add in I'f I ever need to. I'd suggest using LVM which makes it a piece of cake.

There's no need for FAT 32 as Linux can read (and now write! ) NTFS partitions
 
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