LibreCoupon
August 24th, 2014, 04:42 AM
I'm not new to Ubuntu. I'm not new to partitioning. But I'm new to GPT Disks.
As with my previous experience installing and partitioning Ubuntu/other distro on an older hard disks, I partition my hard drive as follows:
/boot - 512mb
/ - 100Gb
/home - 500Gb +
/swap - approximately 16Gb
With GPT Disks, I don't know how to partition these newer disks.
I've bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. It has a GPT Disk. Can I still partition this disk using the same partitions above?
Or will there be an additional partition that should be created for a GPT Disk?
I still want to assign at least 100Gb for / and at least 500Gb for /home. I have a lot of videos and music. I download a lot of movies so my /home partition should be on a separate partition. I'm not sure if 100Gb is just too big for / but I usually install Skype, Filezilla FTP Client, GIMP, Inkscape, WINE, and VirtualBox. Sometimes I need to run a file that is specific to windows and VirtualBox is my only option. I'm not sure though if VirtualBox files are stored on /home or on another directory/folder.
As with my previous experience installing and partitioning Ubuntu/other distro on an older hard disks, I partition my hard drive as follows:
/boot - 512mb
/ - 100Gb
/home - 500Gb +
/swap - approximately 16Gb
With GPT Disks, I don't know how to partition these newer disks.
I've bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1 installed. It has a GPT Disk. Can I still partition this disk using the same partitions above?
Or will there be an additional partition that should be created for a GPT Disk?
I still want to assign at least 100Gb for / and at least 500Gb for /home. I have a lot of videos and music. I download a lot of movies so my /home partition should be on a separate partition. I'm not sure if 100Gb is just too big for / but I usually install Skype, Filezilla FTP Client, GIMP, Inkscape, WINE, and VirtualBox. Sometimes I need to run a file that is specific to windows and VirtualBox is my only option. I'm not sure though if VirtualBox files are stored on /home or on another directory/folder.