Donalb
November 22nd, 2008, 01:09 PM
Hi all,
I've been dual-booting XP & 8.04 for the past 9 months on my 5 yo Dell laptop. 90% time Ubuntu/10% XP.
I finally took the plunge and got a new Dell latitude. (no Ubuntu option from Dell in Ireland I'm afraid).
Anyway, I've got a 120 hdd with Vista (didn't want Vista but that's another story). Sent incorrect size hdd, waiting for 200 GB replacement, but I assume general partition layout will be the same, so lets work on the basis of the 120gb.
Currently the Hdd comes with 3 partitions:
1: Fat16 133 MB initial partition /dev/sda1 ( i dunno what it is maybe diagnostics??)
2: ntfs 10GB <RECOVERY> partition /dev/sda2
3: Main ntfs Vista partition 101.65GB, boot flag.
From my previous Ubuntu experience, (not a power user but comfortable trying/following most instructions), I'd like to put in a Shared ext3 home&data partition (ala Psychocats reccommedation, http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome),
However with already 3 partitions I don't how to do this as it would mean 5 primary partitions which isn't possible (according to GParted).
I'd like some suggestions from the mavens out there.
In GParted I can reduce the 10GB RECOVERY partition to 5 GB. This will create a new 5 empty partition between the new 5GB RECOVERY, before the current VISTA partition. I can create a ext3 /home partition on this.
However that's 4 partitions so I can't then split the main remainig large VISTA partition to VISTA & Ubuntu.
Also in GParted, I don't if the sequence of partitions that hows in the main window is in any way relevant.
Any suggestions? if I'm not clear on any of this sorry. I can explain further as necessary.
Regards
Donal
Ireland
I've been dual-booting XP & 8.04 for the past 9 months on my 5 yo Dell laptop. 90% time Ubuntu/10% XP.
I finally took the plunge and got a new Dell latitude. (no Ubuntu option from Dell in Ireland I'm afraid).
Anyway, I've got a 120 hdd with Vista (didn't want Vista but that's another story). Sent incorrect size hdd, waiting for 200 GB replacement, but I assume general partition layout will be the same, so lets work on the basis of the 120gb.
Currently the Hdd comes with 3 partitions:
1: Fat16 133 MB initial partition /dev/sda1 ( i dunno what it is maybe diagnostics??)
2: ntfs 10GB <RECOVERY> partition /dev/sda2
3: Main ntfs Vista partition 101.65GB, boot flag.
From my previous Ubuntu experience, (not a power user but comfortable trying/following most instructions), I'd like to put in a Shared ext3 home&data partition (ala Psychocats reccommedation, http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome),
However with already 3 partitions I don't how to do this as it would mean 5 primary partitions which isn't possible (according to GParted).
I'd like some suggestions from the mavens out there.
In GParted I can reduce the 10GB RECOVERY partition to 5 GB. This will create a new 5 empty partition between the new 5GB RECOVERY, before the current VISTA partition. I can create a ext3 /home partition on this.
However that's 4 partitions so I can't then split the main remainig large VISTA partition to VISTA & Ubuntu.
Also in GParted, I don't if the sequence of partitions that hows in the main window is in any way relevant.
Any suggestions? if I'm not clear on any of this sorry. I can explain further as necessary.
Regards
Donal
Ireland