What size Partitions

[kevincmoore]

I have just started looking at Kubuntu.First time away from windows.
I have three Partitions on my Hard Drive, 150Gig, 100Gig and 50Gig.
150Gig is Primary with XP,50Gig General use and the 100Gig for Kubuntu.

What would be the best Partition sizes on the 100Gig for the Root, the Home and the Swap.
I have 2Gig of Ram.

Hope this makes sense and i have used the right terminology.

Thanks

Kevin

[txHarleyMan]

Re: What size Partitions

I have just started looking at Kubuntu.First time away from windows.
I have three Partitions on my Hard Drive, 150Gig, 100Gig and 50Gig.
150Gig is Primary with XP,50Gig General use and the 100Gig for Kubuntu.

What would be the best Partition sizes on the 100Gig for the Root, the Home and the Swap.
I have 2Gig of Ram.

Hope this makes sense and i have used the right terminology.

Thanks

Kevin

Kevin,
You will have to create a /logical/ partition and then split up the 100 gb into /, swap and /home. A drive can only have up to 4 partitions.

As for myself, I have a 400gb internal drive and 2gb ram.
20 gb / (ext3)
4 gb swap
10 gb (fat32)
the rest /home (ext3)

If you're not going to use Hibernate features, 512mb is big enough for swap. Make / at least 10gb I would recommend.

[Rog131]

Re: What size Partitions

Links:

RecommendSeparateHome
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecommendSeparateHome

Most new users do not know of the benefits of having a separate /home partition, which can lead them to lose personal files if they ever reinstall their system - or not to upgrade at all for fear of losing their data. On the other hand, an automatic partitioning can be dangerous if the user plans to install lots of things or has a small hard drive. So why not let the installer check the amount of available space and inform the user of his options, then create a separate /home if that's what the user wants to do?

The first step would be to check available space and find out a sane amount of space for / and /home depending on it:

1. The default should be to create a separate /home

2A. For the default option, if the hard drive is bigger than 20 GB, and it's a Ubuntu-only installation, 10 GB should go to / and the rest should go to /home

2B. If the hard drive is between 10 GB and 20 GB, and it's a Ubuntu-only installation, 5 GB should go to / and the rest to /home

2C. If the hard drive is less than 10 GB, there should not be a separate /home partition

3A. If the hard drive is bigger than 40 GB and a dual-boot, 10 GB should go to / and the rest to /home

3B. If the hard drive is between 30 GB and 40 GB and a dual-boot, 5 GB should go to / and the rest to /home

3C. If the hard drive is less than 30 GB and a dual-boot, there should be no separate /home partition.

Then, the results should be presented to the user as an intermediate step in the installation process. The dialogue should be short, informative, straight-to-the-point, and more importantly it should be based on the results of the test but still let the user decide:

Swap Partition FAQ
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

How much swap do I need?
*If you have n Mb of ram, you need between n and 2*n Mb of swap.
*If you have a disk big enough, just put 2*n Mb swap.

Linux Partition HOWTO
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/


I have 1 G Memory.

I'm using with Kubuntu Gutsy KDE 4:

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00075417

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1276 2550 10241437+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2551 2805 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 2806 30401 221664870 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2806 16603 110832403+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 16604 30401 110832403+ 83 Linux

=>

10 G root
10 G home
2 G swap
rest is 2 x data partition

Topic: KDE4: Clean installation with live CD
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090309.0


With separate KDE 3.5 installation (250G harddrive):
10 G root
10 G home
rest is 2 x data partition
using same swap as KDE 4 installation.

[kevincmoore]

Re: What size Partitions

Thank you both.
I have now reinstalled with resized Partitions as originally i created a huge /(ext3)
and a small /home(ext3).

Totally different approach to windows install. Yourselves and others have been a great help.

Kevin