Help with partitioning for Ubuntu 7.04?!?!?

Asked by penz

I have Dell 8400 with I GB RAM, and 400GB how much in MiB should I set for Linux Swap(the virtual memory)? 1024MB? I saw this article in maximumpc.com (http://www.maximumpc.com/linux ), and there it said to set it to 2,000 MIB. This is how it looks for my partitioning for dell 8400.

/dev/sda type MountPoint format size Used

/dev/sda1 fat16 /media/sda1 65MB 33MB
/dev/sda2 ntfs /media/sda2 395027MB 56300MB
/free space 8MB
/dev/sda3 fat32 /media/sda3 4984MB 4000MB

So to do the partitioning, i have to resize only ntfs, and free space(for root, and Linux swap) and nothing else, right? Thanks. (If you have any other suggestion, please post them here. )

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Jason Sandlin (crane) said :
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I think there used to be a general rule of thumb that the swap partition should be twice the Memory. I don think this is always needed with the larger amounts of ram. I think you would be OK with 1 gig of swap, but I do not know what you paln on using the computer for.
 If you can afford it 2 would be good.Looks like you have plenty of space on sda2 to resize if needed. How are you planning to install? SDa one is a small partition is the a seperate boot partition? andsda 3 appears to be almost 5 gig. If you are looking to just see if you like linux you could actually in stall it on sda3. Just format it into extended partitions and you could have sda5 - 3 gig for root partition and sda6 1.9gig swap.
 Just a suggestion.

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penz (california-oc2000) said :
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I was planning to partition the (only) ntfs to about 300 GB and then use the (free space) for the root and linux swap. And leave the fat16(sda1) and fat 32(sda3) alone.

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Jason Sandlin (crane) said :
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If you have anything on a partition that is formated all the data will be lost. So if you reformat the NTFS partition you will lose anything on it. If your freespace is reall 8Mb (Megabytes) that is no where near big enough to install an OS. But if that is a miss print and the Freespace is 8 Gig you should be good. Just partition it as extended and go from there. 8 Gig is enough room to have a swap and root partition.

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