[Solved] Partitioning question

[zebedeeboss]

Hi

apologies if asked and already answered elsewhere but are you able to have an 80gb windows partion on 1 hdd and then devote another whole HDD to a linux installation but have grub on the 1st disk that has windows on it

ie

1st drive 1Tb HDD Grub + c drive (windows) = 80Gb f drive = the rest of the 1TB disk for data
2nd drive 320gb hdd for kubuntu root and home partitioned separately I was thinking 30gb root, 8gb swap partition and the rest for home
3rd drive 300gb d drive again for data

I have only ever previously had both windows and kubuntu on the same physical drive

Many Thanks in advance

Zeb...

[vinnywright]

Re: Partitioning question

yes that looks good .................maby if you will have a separet root and home you can take root down to 20Gig .

I have lots of stuff instaled and my 21 Gig root partition is no whare near full

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 21G 5.6G 14G 30% /
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 753M 844K 752M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 1.7M 1.9G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda3 193G 112G 72G 61% /home

and swap only needs to = RAM ....and onley if you intend to suspend to RAM or do stuff like vid recoding that may use it up . my 4Gig's of swap never gets all used up but that's how mutch RAM I have and I do suspend to RAM and the system dose use it all.

hears my disk layout .....1 disk but thare ya go

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ sudo parted
[sudo] password for vinny:
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print all
Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 4195MB 4195MB primary linux-swap(v1)
2 4195MB 26.0GB 21.8GB primary ext4 boot
3 26.0GB 237GB 210GB primary ext4
4 237GB 500GB 264GB extended
5 237GB 268GB 31.6GB logical ext4
6 268GB 300GB 32.0GB logical ext4
7 300GB 500GB 200GB logical ext4


(parted)

VINNY

[zebedeeboss]

Re: Partitioning question [Solved]

That worked a treat - thank you very much for the guidance