Re: LUG: Dual Boot Partitioning - Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:43:17 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Dual Boot Partitioning

From : Ed Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>

Date : Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:43:17 -0400

Yeah, there are plenty of ways to partition, and lots of opinions. For most
people, it doesn't matter much how you do it.

personally, I would use half the drive for windows, half for linux. Then in the
linux space, I'd split it into 2xRAM (up to 1G) for swap, and then half the
remaining for / and the rest for /home. Mounting /home on a separate partition
makes it easy to install over again (or another distro) without losing your home
directory w/ all your files and settings. There's no great reason IMO to
spearate /boot.

Ed

Josh Hunholz wrote:
>>What's up LUG,
>>I am doing an installation of a dual boot of XP and Realm Linux, and I
>>am in the phase of partitioning, and I wanted to know what would be the
>>ideal partition sizes that I should create with the XP setup program.
>>Should I create more than 2?
>
>
> Yes, you want more than 2, but there are two schools of opinion here.
> Some would say you need:
>
> 100 MB /boot
> 2xRAM swap
> ??? Windows
> ??? Linux
>
> Others will say you don't need a /boot (well, you don't, but it's not bad
> to have one either).
>
> --Josh Hunholz
>
>
>>--
>>Thanks,
>>Robert Phaneuf
>>
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