How did you set up and formated your partitions?

[jersoncito]

How did you set up and formated your partitions?

These are mine:
(160 GB hard drive)

Primary

Windows 25 GB ntfs

Boot 300 MB ext3 (Ubuntu)

Logical
/ 700 MB jfs
/opt 300 MB jfs
/var 2.5 GB jfs
/usr 4.5 GB jfs
/tmp 9 GB jfs
/home 110 GB xfs

I'm still using Ubuntu Hardy since April 2008. The reason why I gave 9 GB to /tmp is because with less of that, I was not able to copy DVD-DL. I thought Ubuntu it was going to take the space from /home, but it was not the case.

[gn2]

/ 148gb ext3

swap 1gb

[Regenweald]

WD 120 GB | sda1 8GB ext4 - '/' | sda2 96GB ext4 - '/home'
WD 120 GB | sdb1 8GB ntfs - 'XP' | sdb2 100 GB ntfs media dump
SG 250 GB | sdc1 250 GB ext3 Logical

This is the new setup, recently messed up grub2 so I re-organised.

[CharmyBee]

20GB Windows XP 32bit NTFS
20GB Windows XP 64bit NTFS
20GB Ubuntu 8.10 32bit ext3
20GB Ubuntu 9.04 64bit ext3
280GB Data NTFS
460GB Data NTFS
No swap partition

[Dimitriid]

Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000b0dc

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 90922 730330933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 90923 91201 2241067+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 90923 91201 2241036 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[sahabcse]

past the o/p of

cd /tmp
du -csh ./*

[raymondh]

2 HD's

Each disk contains /, /data, SWAP

Each disk has a different release of Ubuntu. That way, I can tweak, work on the newer release knowing that if I bork it, I can always resort to the older, tested, stable release. When I get a new version, I just install over the older one and so goes the cycle.

All my personal files are in an external easily accessed by either version.

[jonian_g]

HDD: 320 GB

/ - 10 GB ext4
/home - 310 GB ext3

No swap partition since I have 4GB of Ram.

[pbpersson]

Main Ubuntu Desktop:


sda1 7.5 GB Swap
sda2 420 GB Ext3 /
sda3 270 GB Ext3 /home

sdb1 300 GB Ext3 /home/phil/MyData/SATA2

sdc1 300 GB EXt3 /home/phil/MyData/SATA3


The mount points for my SATA2 and SATA3 drives did not have very creative names, but I wanted them to mean something. On the main drive I have a directory /home/phil/MyData/SATA1 and I was going to share the MyData directory on the network but never got that far.

[camper365]

40 GB HDD

11 GB NTFS -- Windows
2 GB ext4 -- /
2 GB ext4 -- /var
128 MB ext4 -- /boot
6 GB ext4 -- /usr
14 GB ext4 -- /home
2.5 GB swap

[starcannon]

Disk /dev/sdx: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: mumbojumbo

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdx1 1 2490 20000893+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdx2 * 2491 4922 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/sdx3 4923 30401 204660067+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdy3 30153 30401 2000092+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Thats the basics of a dual boot setup, and when commercial gaming finally arrives, the NTFS partition will disappear from my setup. Currently my partition sizes are:

/dev/sdx1 /windowsXP 30gb
/dev/sdx2 / 20gb
/dev/sdx3 /home Whats left of the first drive.
/dev/sdy3 /swap is set equal to my amount of installed ram.

At some point I think I'll be changing things up a bit, but for now this basic pattern is what works for me.

[JordyD]

Model: ATA WDC WD1600JS-98M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 512B 41.1MB 41.1MB primary ext2 boot
2 41.1MB 1094MB 1053MB primary linux-swap
3 1094MB 53.5GB 52.4GB primary ext3
4 53.5GB 160GB 107GB primary ext3

1 = /boot
2 = swap
3 = /home
4 = /

[dragos240]

I used parted magic

[Eisenwinter]

sdb1 - NTFS, Windows XP, 60GB
sdb2 - Ext2, Linux /boot, 4GB
sdb3 - Ext4, Linux root partition, 100GB
sdb4 - Ext4, Linux /home, rest of sdb disk in size (about 350GB or so)

and sda1, a sole Ext4 partition, hosts /Music - 80GB

[mali2297]

Primary:
20 GB Windows ntfs
60 MB /boot ext2
35 GB /data xfs

Logical:
750 MB swap
10 GB / ext3
10 GB unformated
1 GB /opt ext3

[xpod]

I`ve had 2 drives in my main Desktop since i began using Ubuntu.The drives & machines have changed quite a few times but the drive layouts themselves have stayed pretty much the same.Except for the very first week when there was still a NTFS drive,which quickly shrunk to a partition....which then disappeared completely.:D


Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xea55ea55

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1946 15631213+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1947 24053 177574477+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 24054 24321 2152710 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004280c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 3647 29294496 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 3648 19209 125001765 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 19210 19457 1992060 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[FuturePilot]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6e236e23

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 8552 68693908+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 8553 11400 22876560 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 11401 18366 55954395 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 18367 19457 8763457+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 17921 18366 3582463+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11401 17920 52371837 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcb4a53fb

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux


Basically 65GB for Vista (I can't for the life of me figure out what is taking up 40GB of that :???:
8GB for this recovery partition
20GB for / ext3
50GB for /home ext3
3.5GB for swap
500GB ext3 on my external drive.