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Hello forum readers,

 

I got a question about a partition table with xp and linux, i hope you can suggest me what to do and what i shouldnt.

 

partition table:

 

Xp 6gb

mnt 1gb

root 6gb

swap 1gb

storage 65gb

 

any suggestions ?

Quote:Hello forum readers, 

I got a question about a partition table with xp and linux, i hope you can suggest me what to do and what i shouldnt.

 

partition table:

 

Xp 6gb

mnt 1gb

root 6gb

swap 1gb

storage 65gb

 

any suggestions ?

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First of all, you got 79G? You knew I had to do this. :) I would partition the drive like this:

 

10G Windows XP

1G SWAP (generally SWAP = RAM * 2 but I don't use more than 1G)

5G /home

15G /

49G /storage

 

Your suggestion of using 1G for /mnt is useless as you mount drives/partitions/... into that directory. They don't need any space itself.

So here you want 3 virtual drives.

 

10G Windows (ntfs)

21G Linux (Ext3)

48/49G Storage (Fat32)

Quote:partition table: 

Xp 6gb

mnt 1gb

root 6gb

swap 1gb

storage 65gb

 

any suggestions ?

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#1 - mnt doesnt need its own partition (ever)

#2 - boot does and is probably the most critical and should be before all others

#3 - you've got 5 partitions listed but dont really suggest if you have an idea for which are primary and which are logical.

 

So here's the low down, see if you can make sense of it.

 

1 - (primary,bootable) - /boot 100MB

2 - (primary) - WinXP

3 - (primary) - swap 1GB

4 - (extended) remaining diskspace (yes, all of it, its for the logicals)

5 - (logical) - / 6GB

6 - (logical) - storage