On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:45, Peter McDermott wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've been reading the thread and thinking about how to partition my hard > drive. Could you tell me if this is feasible (or if it even makes any > sense): > > 80 gig hd > - hd0 ntfs 30 gig - winxp (I know but I'm a newbie > with linux) > - hd1 ext3 10 gig - /home (to be shared between > installed linux distros) > - hd2 ext3 20 gig - / , fedora core 2 > - hd3 ext3 20 gig - / . fedora core 3 test 2 > > I don't know about the size distrabution... should /home get 30 gig and > hd2/3 get 10 gig each? > If you are downloading a lot of stuff then home should be larger. You also need a swap partition I probably would do 20gb winxp, 1gb swap (large excess in most situations), 30gb home, and split the rest for the 2 linux partitions. Note that some say Linux does not like /boot to be in an extended partition so you may want to create 2 /boot partitions as primary partitions and put all the rest of the linux stuff in extended partitions. On the disk that would be XP /boot (FC2) /boot (FC3) extended /home swap FC2 FC3 or something similar. > Thanks >
