ollec86
February 2nd, 2009, 12:15 AM
I've been interested in Ubuntu for about a week now and I have a couple of questions about the partitioning.
I have Windows XP installed and would like to partition my hard drive to accommodate Ubuntu. I understand the thing about how the swap should be twice the size of your RAM and that it is advised to separate the root and the /home into different partitions to make it easier to update/reinstall Ubuntu without losing all your files.
After you create your different partitions and you set the "mount" to "/" and "/home" and all, do your files automatically get saved to the /home partition when you save them or are extra steps necessary?
Also, what things would get saved on the "/" partition and what would get saved on the "/home" partition?
Finally, when you are deciding on how to mount the different partitions, I've read that you are required to declare a mount for each partition, so the Windows XP partition needs to be mounted as well. Is this actually the case? And if so, how do I go about unmounting that (cause I don't want that while I'm in Linux, do I?)
Thanks in advance for the help.
~ Ollec86
I have Windows XP installed and would like to partition my hard drive to accommodate Ubuntu. I understand the thing about how the swap should be twice the size of your RAM and that it is advised to separate the root and the /home into different partitions to make it easier to update/reinstall Ubuntu without losing all your files.
After you create your different partitions and you set the "mount" to "/" and "/home" and all, do your files automatically get saved to the /home partition when you save them or are extra steps necessary?
Also, what things would get saved on the "/" partition and what would get saved on the "/home" partition?
Finally, when you are deciding on how to mount the different partitions, I've read that you are required to declare a mount for each partition, so the Windows XP partition needs to be mounted as well. Is this actually the case? And if so, how do I go about unmounting that (cause I don't want that while I'm in Linux, do I?)
Thanks in advance for the help.
~ Ollec86