Dual Boot Partition Sizes

[brconner]

Hey,
I've had a dual boot for a while now, feisty just crashed on me and won't boot up anymore. Once school is over though (3days!!!!) I'm gonna completely reformat my tablet. I want to create a partition that linux and windows can both read and write to. I have an 80GB harddrive. I was thinking making an windows(ntfs) partition like 15GB, a shared(fat32) partition thats 45GB and a linux partition thats 20GB. Should I give either OS more memory? and should I split up the linux so that theres the /root partition and then a /home partition? Just wanna make sure that I'm giving each enough memory and enough for new programs and such.
Thanks!
Blair

[PDR60]

Re: Dual Boot Partition Sizes

Interesting.... I used to run a setup just like this but then I changed it slightly. I run my windows XP in 8.0 GB. I run my Debian in 8.0GB for root "/". then I make the rest my /home directory. Now your probably thinking you won't be able to read/write to the /home from windows. That's handled with a driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html. It works perfect. i had some problems with the fat32 setup and tried this about year ago. It has never had a single problem. Rock stable. It makes your load much easier to handle and you use your disk much more efficiently.

So what you'll do is load XP then Load linux with a separate root, swap and home partition. That's it!!! simple and sweet.

PDR60

[IgnorantGuru]

Re: Dual Boot Partition Sizes

Here are my partitioning recommendations...
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13735.0

As for /home, I leave it on the same partition as root, but I only use it for software configs, and I automatically back it up daily. All user data (docs, mp3s, etc) are stored on another partition, as are the backups.

[dibl]

Re: Dual Boot Partition Sizes

I'm gonna completely reformat my tablet. I want to create a partition that linux and windows can both read and write to.

Read all about it here:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

An excellent partitioning tool, that I recommend you make and use for your project, is the GParted live CD, available as an ISO image download here:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

should I split up the linux so that theres the /root partition and then a /home partition

Absolutely YES! Make your Linux root at least 8GB, make your swap 1.5 times your RAM, and use the rest of your 20GB for /home.

Should I give either OS more memory?

You won't be making this choice! Fortunately, only one OS will run at a time, so it will use however much RAM that you have, up to the limits of Windows and Kubuntu.

HTH