[QCLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Leif Theden]

Just my 2 cents, but i have found it to be EXTREMELY (note the
emphasis) helpful to make a seperate / and /home partition.  If you
are like me, i switch distros once in a while, having your /home in a
seperate mount will make distro switches infinately easier, because
you dont have to worry about wiping your personal files.  For example,
I just changed from Arch Linux to Ubuntu, and I was able to keep my
home directory intact, even though my root ( / ) was completely
formatted.  Good luck!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> I've been playing with Kubuntu 8.04 Beta on my laptop and tried
> VirtualBox and some other stuff hoping I could get rid of Vista. I don't
> like VirtualBox so will just have to do a dual boot after all. Oh, Well.
> Maybe later.  I still have a couple of things to look at to see if they
> work with my GPS or not but my hopes aren't high. Anyway, I will be
> setting the laptop back up with 7.10 (or waiting for 8.04 in about a
> month) and need some advice. After my Window Vista is shrunk as far as I
> can take it I have 65 GB to put Kubuntu in. When I set it up I want to
> have the "/", "/home" and or course the "swap" on separate "drives".
> How much of the 65 GB should I assign to the "swap" and "/"?  I don't
> want to crowd them but I don't want to wast space either. Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have A Great Day
> Bob Jones
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