Dual boat partitioning with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04?

Question

So i want to dual boot my 80GB hard drive with Windows and Ubuntu. Well the drive is actual size is 74. So I was think i would give 40GB to windows, I was going to do only 2GB for Ubuntu's swap because I'm really thinking I wouldn't use up all my 2 GBs of primary memory(RAM). So I still 32GB for the root partition and home/storage partition I guess. Not sure whats a good size for root and home? I'm thinking I won't be storing too much data. How should I separate the space?

Thanks peeps

Answer 1

Linux actually needs very little space (It can even be run off a live CD or 2GB USB drive). As an example, I have a development system on which I have installed Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Mint, Gentoo, and Slackware. Most of them reside happily in 20 GB partitions. They would easily fit into 10GB or smaller.

If your purpose is just to learn a little bit about Linux, I would recommend a 10GB partition. This will give you plenty of room to work as long as you don't download a lot of video.

If you think you will want to download a lot of supplemental software and do some serious work, go with a 20GB partition. As far as the swap partition is concerned, 2GB is plenty for casual use. You would need more only for heavy duty multitasking (Running more than 20 applications at the same time).

Welcome to the world of Linux.

Answer 2

IF you already have windows installed taking up all the space possible... your best option in this case would be my lil friend i use to install ubuntu and run it via windows...



WUBI



Windows Ubuntu Basic Installer.... All it does is it installs ubutntu onto a windows drive as an application but it boots into it like an OS. So from the outside (*inside of windows*) of it you can configure it as needed and then when everything installs you can just reboot and it should give you the option to boot into the OS.

Answer 3

i don't recommend making a nil.33 partition for report sharing. in simple terms make a folder on the Window's partition and place stuff in there from Linux, when you consider that abode windows does not oftentimes see linux report gadget. A 160GB problematical rigidity is slightly small for my style,yet while your not gaming that doesn't rely. For Linux I recommend a max of 20 GB, that way you have sufficient for added enlargement for apps and song and a few vids. pass away something for abode windows. that's what I honestly have finished with my twin boot. you additionally can in Linux acquire a startup supervisor which will assist you tweak the way GRUB starts, Which OS is chosen without you choosing it, in case you always desire it besides into abode windows relatively of Linux. in case you somewhat desire a nil.33 "replace partition" I recommend not something over 20GB, and 20GB for the Linux OS and 120GB for abode windows.

Answer 4

Take this article for reference:

http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/how-to-partition-a-hard-drive.html

Maybe it will help you!

For dual boot, it also think the following article can give some suggesion:

http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/dual-boot-windows-7-vista.html