[solved]partitioning during installation

[wizgen]

i am new to kubuntu...while installing ubuntu u get a option to use the largest continuous free space to install ..how can i do something similar with kubuntu der is no option like dat...will manually partitioning it with following partitions
500 mb ntfs mount pt-/boot
8 gb mount pt-/swap
rest of space ntfs mount pt-/root
work

[dibl]

Re: partitioning during installation

No.

First, forget about NTFS format for the OS, and use EXT4.

Second, 8GB for swap is way too much. Probably 4GB is overkill, but if you make it 4GB you'll never need to think about it again.

You don't need a separate /boot partition, for a normal desktop system. Just make a 20GB ext4 partition and install the entire OS in there.

If you have a lot of data, and you want to share it with Windows, then elsewhere on that disk drive you can make a big NTFS partition, and that can be for the user data.

[wizgen]

Re: partitioning during installation

sorry i wrote ntfs in the above post by mistake
as for the swap i read in a forum dat it should be the double of ur RAM so i made it 8gb
ans for the main partition what will be the mt pt for it

[dibl]

Re: partitioning during installation

The "2X RAM" rule for swap is 10 years old, and no longer appropriate. If you have 4GB of RAM, then if you manage to get all of your RAM busy running processes, and you want to suspend to disk, aka "sleep", aka S2Disk, then you might need 4GB of swap -- that is the maximum.

So, the 20GB ext4 partition will be mounted on "/".

[wizgen]

Re: partitioning during installation

thanxs kubuntu up and running

[Ole Juul]

Re: partitioning during installation

Probably too late, but just for the record (and not to get into an argument), but in a decade of running Linux, except for a single buggy application, I have never seen swap used. Some say don't bother. I think it's a bit like not stepping on a crack. Perhaps it's better to be sure.

Nice to see you're up and running wizgen.

[oshunluvr]

Re: [solved]partitioning during installation

I was transcoding 4 dvd's at once and a few other things one day and my desktop got real slow - sure enough I exceeded my 4gb of RAM and was swapping to disk!

Now I have 8gb of RAM

I usually recommend RAM=swap for laptops and desktop systems 2GB or less. For desktops 4GB or more, I think 2GB is plenty of swap.

So I guess, unless you have a laptop with more than 2GB's, 2GB's is the size!

[Ole Juul]

Re: [solved]partitioning during installation

That's very interesting about swap. I guess this should be another thread ... but anyway. I recently did several installations on a laptop with 128MB ram and it was really (really, really) slow. However, it still refused to go to swap. Perhaps it depends on the application.