I have this ancient Thinkpad with a 75 GB hard drive and Windows 7, with 46 GB taken and 29 GB free. Half of those 46 GB are programs and half are data.
I could take a bit of junk out and free, maybe, another 10 GB. There's no point replicating data across OS's, so I was thinking of mounting %DEFAULTUSERPROFILE% to /home/user/documents after installing NetBSD. I am not sure if I should create an additional partition to store common data or should I simply mount the NTFS partition and then proceed as above. In other words, I would have: 1) A Windows recovery partition; 2) Windows (base system + programs) 3) NetBSD (with its slices) 4) An msdos partition to hold common data. Is this a good partition scheme? Another question: if I make two swap files in two different partitions, would I be able to mount both from NetBSD? (one of the pagefiles would be on the NTFS partition, the other on the msdos partition). Thanks -- Ottavio
