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Have I correctly set up partitions for my hard drive?

Asked by Nate King

I am trying to install ubuntu 6.1 on my laptop in addition to windows xp. I am partitioning my 80gb internal hard drive and i would like to know if i have set up partitions correctly:

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I believe that i have 2gb for swap, 8gb for root files and 10gb for a home folder for personal files. Should i be setting it up this way, and if so has it been set up correctly?

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Nicholas Omann (alphacluster) said : 		#1

You should be fine though you may want to just use 1gig for swap since its not usually touched and most don't see a need for more then 1gig of it.

As for the rest those should be good.

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Best Nate King (nate7679) said : 		#2

I have heard 1.5 to 2 times your RAM and mine is 1gb. But I can change that if thats all that is necessary.

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Nate King (nate7679) said : 		#3

Alright, I tried that and now im getting the error:

The following operation could not be applied to disk:

Resize /dev/hda2 from 68.52 GiB to 48.52 GiB

under the details it says:

"ERROR: Filesystem check failed! Totally 7327732 cluster accounting mismatches. This software has detected that your NTFS is corrupted. Please run chkdsk /f on Windows then rebot it TWICE! Important, don't forget the /f parameter! Afterwards you can run ntfsresize. No modification was made to NTFS."

Then, when I rebooted windows began to do what looked like CHKDSK. It verified the files and is currently verifying indexes. Should I still run CHKDSK when it loads my desktop?