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Ubu-freak
October 27th, 2009, 09:36 AM
I am seeking a nice partition method so I would like to see how some of you guys partitioned your ubuntu systems.
eg.
5G /home
5G for the rest
1G for swap

Also I would like to know where to install programs such as Matlab, Xilinx and stuff..(in /usr? /opt?)

TBerk
October 27th, 2009, 10:38 AM
Half of the 250G HD is WinXP the other is Ubuntu.

Within the Ubuntu side of things I have about 12G given over to '/' ( it turns out that was excessive). I can get by with half of that, really.

Swap gets 2G although that too is turning out to be excessive. (I though rips and re-configs of large audio/video files might need it though...)

The rest, more than 100G is /Home for the most part.

If I get around to installing a new HD (or wiping and reinstalling from scratch) I revisited what practical experience has taught me, until then this works fine.


berk

louieb
October 27th, 2009, 12:35 PM
Kinda of extreme but I keep partitions for stable and testing installs, a dedicate Grub partition, swap, and a storage partition.



Dedicated Grub - 25Mb
Stable Install - 15GB
Test Install - 15GB
Stable Home - 5GB
Test Home - 5GB
Swap - 1 GB
Storage - whatever is left on the drive.

Great for testing and checking out the new release that comes out every 6 months. And knowing i have a stable Install to boot to if testing gets screwed up.