Hi, I've googled and read, and again, and as a newbie to partitioning am going to take the plunge and install Ubuntu 12.10 by partitioning manually during install. Please let me know what you think of the following: I have Windows already on sdc, plus a free 500Gb hdd (sdb) for extra storage, plus a 1.5Tb drive solely for Ubuntu (showing up as sda). I am planning to have mount points for root and home, will give home 30Gb (though I prob'ly won't end up installing anything like that much in programs). Both of those will be primary, and located at 'beginning', and file system ext4. I will tell it to put the boot loader on sda [the Ubuntu drive]. (And I'll adjust drive boot order in BIOS.) Q: swap area: I have 4Gb RAM - should I give 4Gb or 8Gb to swap area? Q: Should swap area be located at 'beginning' or 'end' of its partition? Swap area will be 'logical'. Q: Should shared 500Gb storage drive be ntfs or FAT32?
12.10 doesn't seem to allow an automatic install onto a separate drive in a dual-drive machine - I seem to remember that was possible with the installer for 10.04. So I am hoping I can do the partitioning for the first time. Thanks for your time, Dave
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