morganpatrick
September 18th, 2011, 02:24 AM
Hello,
I run a dual boot machine on my desktop, and now I would like to do the same on my laptop. On the desktop I have two drives, but on my laptop I have a brand-new 500gb drive.
On the desktop, my ubuntu drive is in four partitions: boot, swap, root and home. I find this is the best way to keep my data intact when ubuntu becomes corrupt, or grub becomes corrupt, or an upgrade fails.
Here is what I would like to see on the drive, ideally:
Grub, at the front of the disk
a boot partition for ubuntu
a swap partition for ubuntu
a root partition for ubuntu's operating system
an OS partition for windows 7
a big data partition where I can keep my music, videos, pictures, and other files, for either operating system
However, I believe the maximum number of partitions for an NTFS drive is 4. Since I need to get both operating systems on one drive, I don't think this scheme will work.
My question is, what would be the best partition scheme for this? In general, what is the best practice for sharing windows 7 x64 and ubuntu 11.04 x64 on a totally blank hard drive?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this is redundant and I just can't find the right thread.
I run a dual boot machine on my desktop, and now I would like to do the same on my laptop. On the desktop I have two drives, but on my laptop I have a brand-new 500gb drive.
On the desktop, my ubuntu drive is in four partitions: boot, swap, root and home. I find this is the best way to keep my data intact when ubuntu becomes corrupt, or grub becomes corrupt, or an upgrade fails.
Here is what I would like to see on the drive, ideally:
Grub, at the front of the disk
a boot partition for ubuntu
a swap partition for ubuntu
a root partition for ubuntu's operating system
an OS partition for windows 7
a big data partition where I can keep my music, videos, pictures, and other files, for either operating system
However, I believe the maximum number of partitions for an NTFS drive is 4. Since I need to get both operating systems on one drive, I don't think this scheme will work.
My question is, what would be the best partition scheme for this? In general, what is the best practice for sharing windows 7 x64 and ubuntu 11.04 x64 on a totally blank hard drive?
Thanks in advance and sorry if this is redundant and I just can't find the right thread.