On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:45, Peter McDermott wrote:
Hey guys,
I've been reading the thread and thinking about how to partition my hard drive. Could you tell me if this is feasible (or if it even makes any sense):
80 gig hd - hd0 ntfs 30 gig - winxp (I know but I'm a newbie with linux) - hd1 ext3 10 gig - /home (to be shared between installed linux distros) - hd2 ext3 20 gig - / , fedora core 2 - hd3 ext3 20 gig - / . fedora core 3 test 2
I don't know about the size distrabution... should /home get 30 gig and hd2/3 get 10 gig each?
If you are downloading a lot of stuff then home should be larger. You also need a swap partition
I probably would do 20gb winxp, 1gb swap (large excess in most situations), 30gb home, and split the rest for the 2 linux partitions. Note that some say Linux does not like /boot to be in an extended partition so you may want to create 2 /boot partitions as primary partitions and put all the rest of the linux stuff in extended partitions. On the disk that would be XP /boot (FC2) /boot (FC3) extended /home swap FC2 FC3
or something similar.
Thanks