techiewannabe
October 16th, 2010, 01:37 AM
I have been using Jaunty for quite a while and am pretty happy with it. However, it is no longer supported and I'm interested in using Lucid.
Recently I had to replace my hard drive. I put Lucid on the system and have had a lot of trouble with it. It keeps freezing up on me. In reading the postings of others, I found that I wasn't alone with this problem. So...I put Jaunty back on my system, creating a separate partition for it. Shortly, thereafter, I learned that the partition for Jaunty was quite small while the partition for Lucid was quite large. I know that resizing the partitions is not rocket science but before I do that I would like to get some ideas about partitioning my system.
I plan to continue using Jaunty while I work out the kinks with Lucid. Eventually, I expect to use Lucid exclusively.
I know that I could get a partitioning program and resize everything. But, I'm not sure of the best way to go about this. Some questions I have are:
a) what are some good partitioning programs?
b) with a 320 gig hard drive, and 4 gig of ram, what is the best way to partition, taking into account swap space, and (at least) two Ubuntu operating systems.
c) how many partitions could I put on the drive. (For example, I might want to play with another distro on a different partition.)
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Recently I had to replace my hard drive. I put Lucid on the system and have had a lot of trouble with it. It keeps freezing up on me. In reading the postings of others, I found that I wasn't alone with this problem. So...I put Jaunty back on my system, creating a separate partition for it. Shortly, thereafter, I learned that the partition for Jaunty was quite small while the partition for Lucid was quite large. I know that resizing the partitions is not rocket science but before I do that I would like to get some ideas about partitioning my system.
I plan to continue using Jaunty while I work out the kinks with Lucid. Eventually, I expect to use Lucid exclusively.
I know that I could get a partitioning program and resize everything. But, I'm not sure of the best way to go about this. Some questions I have are:
a) what are some good partitioning programs?
b) with a 320 gig hard drive, and 4 gig of ram, what is the best way to partition, taking into account swap space, and (at least) two Ubuntu operating systems.
c) how many partitions could I put on the drive. (For example, I might want to play with another distro on a different partition.)
Any ideas would be appreciated.