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Looking to set up partition for linux/windows

  • 11-09-2009 4:20am
    #1
    deceit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭


    Would anyone be able to see if this would be okay or should it be done another way. 1.5Tb drive
    Linux Mint
    / 10GB
    swap 4Gb (have 4gb ram but think 4gb swap should be fine)
    /usr 136gb
    /home 50gb

    Windows 7 100Gb
    Windows Vista 100GB

    Shared Data (Hopefully in NTFS) 800GB

    For testing other os's ( ubuntu, fedora core etc) 100Gb approx


Comments

  • #2
    Tillotson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 218 ✭✭Tillotson


    Is there any advantage in having a seperate /usr partition. 136GB seems massive.

    I've got a 10GB partition for / and 2GB for /home.
    Inside my home directory are symlinks to directories in my media partition (NTFS), eg movies, music etc.

    You might want a seperate 50MB /boot partition if you want a ext4 root partition, because of problems with grub, might be solved.

    If your looking for a challange look into LVM which allows partitions to span multiple hard disks and resize on the fly without rebooting.


  • #3
    deceit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭deceit


    I will be having a seperate /usr partition as will use it for trying out any program I come accross that seems to be decent. I want to keep the /home seperate for certain files & documents that i dont want to lose (have backed up but lots of hassle to transfer them back on). I will add a /boot, definiately a good idea. I was going to run it in raid 1 but that seems like could be interesting.
    Tillotson wrote: »
    Is there any advantage in having a seperate /usr partition. 136GB seems massive.

    I've got a 10GB partition for / and 2GB for /home.
    Inside my home directory are symlinks to directories in my media partition (NTFS), eg movies, music etc.

    You might want a seperate 50MB /boot partition if you want a ext4 root partition, because of problems with grub, might be solved.

    If your looking for a challange look into LVM which allows partitions to span multiple hard disks and resize on the fly without rebooting.


  • #4
    bman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭bman


    I second that 136GB for /usr seems excessive. That's one hell of a lot of software!


  • #5
    deceit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭deceit


    I've took both your advice and dropped it to 50Gb and split the difference between /home and media area. Just so you know why i decided that amount, i have 100gb of software on my workstation pc so presumed would need alot of space on linux also 8-).


  • #6
    bman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭bman


    deceit wrote: »
    I've took both your advice and dropped it to 50Gb and split the difference between /home and media area. Just so you know why i decided that amount, i have 100gb of software on my workstation pc so presumed would need alot of space on linux also 8-).

    Wow that's a lot! Bit of a software junkie?? :D

    At the end of the day it's your PC. If you think you'll install loads then don't be stuck for space. As well off on the safe side. You have 1.5TB to play with after all. :)

    Me though, I wouldn't near fill 50GB with software.


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  • #7
    deceit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭deceit


    bman wrote: »
    Wow that's a lot! Bit of a software junkie?? :D

    At the end of the day it's your PC. If you think you'll install loads then don't be stuck for space. As well off on the safe side. You have 1.5TB to play with after all. :)

    Me though, I wouldn't near fill 50GB with software.

    The workstation was set up just to test software and see what I taught of it but the crap stuff never really removed just moved out of the way in case needed any of it again. I have seperate pc's for gaming core i7 :D and another for work/college stuff so didnt have to worry about it being clogged. This has two 1.5tb drives so I can put it in raid 0 instead if need space. Will replace the old workstation.


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