Doggonit
July 17th, 2009, 02:06 AM
After a long stint away from the world of *nix in all its flavors and shapes and sizes, I've decided to install Ubuntu 9.04 as I've heard nothing but good about it.
So, I've got a 1.4 GHz rig with 1GB of RAM and three hard drives as follows:
-One 120GB drive
-Two 40GB drives
I was thinking that I might install Ubuntu with all of its partitions on the 120GB drive, and then perhaps make one of the 40GB drives Windows XP or 7 or whatever, and finally make the last 40GB drive a shared NTFS drive so that I might share music and whatnot between the two OS's.
Anyway, focusing on the 120GB drive that I intend to install Ubuntu on, how do you recommend I partition it using the manual partition options? I've been desperately trying to find out what I need and don't need and here is what I gather I need to do:
/ The root partition: Apparently 5GB is recommended, should I perhaps make it 10? What really affects the space requirements here? And this will contain the following automatically:
/etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib and /dev
Is that correct? So I don't need to make partitions for those within the / one?
/usr This contains user programs? What does that mean? Should I make it 10GB or 15?
/var Variable data: Should I perhaps make this 5GB to be on the safe side?
/tmp 2GB? How much do I need?
SWAP: I do need to make a swap space as well, no? How much should that be? 2GB? 5?
/home Apparently this can be all that's left of the 120GB. However, I've also read something to the effect that I need to leave at least 1GB as free space otherwise partition will fail (what?).
Is this it? I don't need anything more, or do I? I don't need to make a seperate /usr/local or do I? What sort of partitions should all of the above be? Primary or Logical? And do I always select the "Location for the new partition" as "Beginning" or "End"? I take it that except for the swap partition, I can make everything else ext3?
If my intended uses can help you to help me, I'll list them briefly: Web surfing, minimal image/photo editing (for website banners and logos and simple things like that), watching video (DVD's and perhaps high-quality internet feeds), some minimal programming (JavaScript stuff) and compiling, and some word processing and spreadsheet editing.
I hope this information suffices. In any case, I do know that all this should be fairly simple and straightforward, I'm just slightly unsure and at a loss at the moment.
So, I've got a 1.4 GHz rig with 1GB of RAM and three hard drives as follows:
-One 120GB drive
-Two 40GB drives
I was thinking that I might install Ubuntu with all of its partitions on the 120GB drive, and then perhaps make one of the 40GB drives Windows XP or 7 or whatever, and finally make the last 40GB drive a shared NTFS drive so that I might share music and whatnot between the two OS's.
Anyway, focusing on the 120GB drive that I intend to install Ubuntu on, how do you recommend I partition it using the manual partition options? I've been desperately trying to find out what I need and don't need and here is what I gather I need to do:
/ The root partition: Apparently 5GB is recommended, should I perhaps make it 10? What really affects the space requirements here? And this will contain the following automatically:
/etc, /bin, /sbin, /lib and /dev
Is that correct? So I don't need to make partitions for those within the / one?
/usr This contains user programs? What does that mean? Should I make it 10GB or 15?
/var Variable data: Should I perhaps make this 5GB to be on the safe side?
/tmp 2GB? How much do I need?
SWAP: I do need to make a swap space as well, no? How much should that be? 2GB? 5?
/home Apparently this can be all that's left of the 120GB. However, I've also read something to the effect that I need to leave at least 1GB as free space otherwise partition will fail (what?).
Is this it? I don't need anything more, or do I? I don't need to make a seperate /usr/local or do I? What sort of partitions should all of the above be? Primary or Logical? And do I always select the "Location for the new partition" as "Beginning" or "End"? I take it that except for the swap partition, I can make everything else ext3?
If my intended uses can help you to help me, I'll list them briefly: Web surfing, minimal image/photo editing (for website banners and logos and simple things like that), watching video (DVD's and perhaps high-quality internet feeds), some minimal programming (JavaScript stuff) and compiling, and some word processing and spreadsheet editing.
I hope this information suffices. In any case, I do know that all this should be fairly simple and straightforward, I'm just slightly unsure and at a loss at the moment.