How do you have your partitions setup

[kd7swh]

I am just wondering how everyone likes their partitions. How many of you dual boot? Do you have a separate partition for your /home?

[enopepsoo]

I have a 20 gig for Ubuntu, 10 gigs that aren't in use and a 130 gb /home, as well as as 120 gb and 250 gb partitions
:guitar:

[bigken]

80 gig hdd

25 gig winxp

10 gig /system

2gig /swap

wots left /home ;)

[public_void]

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 784 6297448+ 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 (6GB OEM added for system restore)
/dev/hda2 * 785 5234 5744625 7 HPFS/NTFS (34GB Windows)
/dev/hda3 5235 6016 6281415 83 Linux (6GB Ubuntu)
/dev/hda4 6017 6081 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris (512MB Swap)

I like to have one big partition, rather than separate partitions for /home or /boot etc.

[~LoKe]

Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2431 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2325 18675531 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2326 2431 851445 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2326 2431 851413+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Home:

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux
Debating on whether or not to take this 20GB drive out and just put it all on the same drive. This IDE beast is loud.

[meng]

Spelling Nazi alert!
I like to have a separate /home partition.

[Omnios]

Hi hi I have a bit of a weird set up. First I tri boot with a Ubuntu partition a Fedora partition and a XP partition. I also have a fat32 documents partition that I have set up as a XP document drive and also mounted in Linux as a document drive that works really well with update installs etc and dont have to worry about weeding out a new home partition. As for XP I bearly ever use it so now its mostly for Ubuntu documents.

[kd7swh]

Spelling Nazi alert!
I like to have a separate /home partition.

My life is a typo.


How do you have your partions setup

[sloggerkhan]

hey, spelling Nazi:
Seperate hom partishin, 2 Oobuntoo partishins (Won fore w/beril, won fore W/O it, pluz mor patitions and unpartishind space... fer duh fyootoor.)
;)

[po0f]

hda (120G)
hda1 /boot 128M
hda2 swap 2G
hda3 extended
hda5 / 25G
hda6 /home 80G # Gonna shrink this down, I just got a 160G external
hda7 /usr/local 10G
hda8 /tmp 256M

hdb (80G)
empty, waiting for F7 (Fedora 7, they dropped the "Core")

sda (160G)
sda1 /media/storage 120G

Since I have a fairly big external hard drive, and pending F7's release, I'm going to move a lot of stuff around. Oh yeah, I never, ever use all the space on a hard drive. You never know when you need one more partition. :)

[slimdog360]

Two hard drives with the first separated into 3 partitions, /root, /home, and swap. The second hard drive is split in two with a special /admin and /music partitions within my /home partition.
The /admin is for my wallpapers, themes, stuff like that.

[DJ_Peng]

I must be the total odd ball. I got an old(-er) WinXP box when someone upgraded theirs, and my old box was already set up with a drive set up for Ubuntu and a separate drive for my files. When I got this box I ended up migrating both my old drives into it and now have a three-drive system.

hda1 20.09 GB NTFS WinXP (because I still use it for my radio work and some
Dreamweaver/Fireworks work, although I also have them installed under Wine)
hda2 W95 Extended Partition (LBA)
hda3 13.98 GB ext3 Ubuntu Edgy (including /home)
hda4 67.72 MB FAT16 Originally set up for PartionMagic's boot util, now no longer used
hda5 352.96 MB Linux swap
hda6 40.04 GB FAT32 Primary data storage, including Firefox and Thunderbird profiles

hdb1 18.66 GB ext3 Older Ubuntu Edgy install, kept to retain some old data
hdb2 W95 Extended Partition (LBA)
hdb5 352.86 MB Linux swap

hdc is my CD-ROM drive

hdd1 14.32 GB FAT32 UbuntuData, data files that are primarily used for Ubuntu, but also available to
WinXP, including some install downloaded files
Eventually I'll reformat hdb and move the files from hdd to it, and if I can ever get SAM Broadcaster to work within Wine I'll gladly blow away my Windows partition and give Ubuntu that space.

[K.Mandla]

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux /boot
/dev/hda2 13 510 4000185 83 Linux /
/dev/hda3 511 572 498015 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 573 7296 54010530 83 Linux /home
/dev/hda5 511 572 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
I occasionally mess with strange file systems, so I've gotten into the habit of a separate /home and /boot, so I can keep Grub happy (if I remember right, it only wants ext2 or 3 ... or maybe some others :roll: ).

[kevinf311]

My first partition is like an 80GB XP section which I wish was the second partition every day of my life. The second partition is a 40GB Ubuntu 6.06 partition that is about half full and only growing. I might get rid of my Zip Drive and add another hard drive to migrate storage to, keeping only the OSes on the first drive.

[KaeseEs]

100 MB /boot
21.5 GB /
241 GB /home
1 GB swap
~50 GB free, so I can copy my 'doze partition from my other machine

[bionnaki]

how do you setup a /home partition without reformatting?

[Malta paul]

Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4776 38363188+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4777 4982 1654695 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4777 4982 1654663+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 12306 78365070 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 12307 14593 18370327+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 2551 8287 46082421 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 8288 12306 32282586 7 HPFS/NTFS

That,s it :)

[dorcssa]

I have 5 gig for /, 4 gig for /home, and three other partitions, two 37 gig and one about 63 gig. I don't dual boot since december. :)

[EdThaSlayer]

I have one huge partition that includes Ubuntu and my /home file. The second and third partitions are from my extra hard drives inside my pc.

[shining]

fdisk -l


Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1217 6079 39062047+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 6080 7538 11719417+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 8721 9729 8104320 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6080 6322 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6323 7538 9767488+ 83 Linux


df -h


Sys. de fich. Tail. Occ. Disp. %Occ. Monté sur
/dev/sda6 9,2G 7,2G 1,6G 82% /
/dev/sda2 37G 26G 9,7G 73% /data


sda1 : windows originally installed, unused
sda2 : data partition, mounted in /data
sda4 : hp windows recover partition crap
sda6 : / partition for debian

and I've some free space left (~10 GB, 7539-8720) potentially for a second linux distribution, which could then also use the swap and data partition.

[happy-and-lost]

(55GB HDD)
1. Extended partition containing a 5GB Ext3 partition for Ubuntu and a 5GB partition for whatever other distro I'm playing around with (Debian currently)
2. Primary NTFS 10GB (eew) for WinXP. I was not going to let it be first this time :p
3. 30-something GB /home in Ext3
4. 1GB Swap