Im going to be reformatting the HDD on the main computer. The drive is 80 GB. Planned partitions: 1. XP partition. Partition size: 4 GB. Purpose: To old Windows XP OS and updates. 2. Linux partition. Partition size: 4 GB. Purpose: secondary OS for tinkering around 3. Applications partition. Partition size: 20 GB. Purpose: Storage of programs like Adobe Photoshop, 3D studio Max, Maya, etc. 4. Media Partition. Partition size: remainder of HDD. Purpose: storage of games, music, movies, pictures, etc. Those are the plans. Any reccomendations would be appreciated Thanks in advance
IMO unless you're constantly installing/uninstalling applications, theres no need for a partition dedicated to applications. Install Windows first, then Linux so you're using grub/lilo as your boot loader. You light like to think about having a FAT32 partition for sharing files between Windows and Linux? Here's how I've partitioned my to 80GB drives: HDD1: 10GB for windows and apps ~65GB for my documents, games (they frequently change), music and video encoding HDD2: 5GB for Gentoo (linux) 1GB FAT32 for sharing files between Windows and Linux ~70Gb for downloads, my documents backup, Windows page file
Coo, an install of XP in 4GB? Could be interesting XP + apps = 25gb Media = 45gb Linux = 10gb That's how I'd do it, tbh.
You don't really need 10gb for nix tbh, 5 should be sufficient [obviously dependent on the packages you install]
Mines currently setup as, HDD1 80gb (8mb Cache) partitioned to 2x40GB - Windows + Apps/Games HDD 2 10gb - empty HDD 3 120gb (SATA) - Docs, photos, etc... although I'll be changing it shortly to: HDD1 - 10gb - Windows HDD2 - 80gb (8mb Cache) - Apps + Games HDD3 - 120gb (SATA) - Docs, photos, etc... and I'll be adding a 2nd SATA for a raid (0 or 1 haven't decided yet) setup at some point I've found that apps **sometimes** run slightly faster if they're not on the same drive as windows.
Actually, I am giving this quite a bit of thought. Considering that applications would need to be swapped when XP needs formatting, It would be more worthwile to make that into a single partition. The planned Linux partition is going to be six gigabytes, using Mandrake with a few applications, including GIMP. Revised partition plans: 1. XP and Applications. Size: 30 GB 2. Linux. Size: 6 GB 3. Media (images and games) 44 GB So those are the plans. After school, I am going to start backing up files that need to be saved and such. Probably going to take me most of the afternoon to complete application re-installation and updating
I'd keep as many apps as possible on a non-Win partition. I've just re-formatted the C: partition to clean up a very bloated Win98SE. OK, I had to re-install the apps on D: to get the info back into registry, but a lot of customising was left undisturbed. It also makes de-fragging quicker, as the apps partition doesn't see much change.
need a loonix swap partition too i have mine as: hdd1+2 (raid 0) = 20gig for windows +apps/games etc, rest for 'stuf' hdd 3+4 = both have 1 partition at maximum size, also full of 'stuff' linux lappy is 512mb swap 50mb (ish) boot partition rest as root
My XP partition is 4gb and it's fine. same setup on all my XP installs since whenever it was released!
