Dear Xie,
you should seriously consider what Johan Turkenburg suggested:
create a 20~30Gb ext3 patition that you mount as / and the rest of the
disk as ext3 mounted as /home. That way, if you have to reinstall
linux, all your files will be safe. You would end up with the
following partitions:
- WinXP - 30Gb
- FAT32 - 20Gb
- / ext3 - 30 Gb
- SWAP - 4Gb
- /home - 90Gb
Also consider that there is now software for windows that allows read/
write access to ext2/3:
http://www.fs-driver.org/
Good luck.
Jose
On Jan 18, 2009, at 18/1/09 - 6:52, Xie Jiabao wrote:
Dear all,
My sincere apologies at the outset for a non-ccp4 question. I am
trying to install ubuntu-8.04.1 (64-bit) linux on my windows xp
containing core2 laptop so as to create a dual boot system. At the
moment windows xp is installed on a 30GB partition and there is
another 20 GB FAT32 partition which was created to share data
between windows and linux once the latter was installed, and 110 GB
of free space. I have a few questions which I would like addressed
before I install linux.
a) I would like to create a linux swap partition of 4-6 GB and have
the rest as an ext3 linux partition. Should these new partitions be
primary or logical partitions? What is the difference between
primary and logical partitions?
b) Should these new partitions be located at the end of my hard disk
since Windows likes to be next to the first sector (MBR)?
c) Should the new partitions be mounted as /swap and /root or /home?
Thanks in advance,
Xie
