Question #79072 on Ubuntu changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072
jbowen7 posted a new comment: Tom, In your partitioning setup you only mentioned sda, but what about sdb, the second hard drive? I hadn't really thought about it but you're right, it would be wise of me to have XP and/or Windows7, since I would benefit from being familiar with the OS that the rest of the world is using. I've decided to stick with 6 GB of triple channel ram (3x2gb) rather than 8 GB of dual channel (4x2gb); I believe it will be more efficient. Now as far as the Swap is concerned, which at 6 GB of ram I may never use, I realized that leaving the swap on a SSD partition would be detrimental to that drive since it would rapidly fill the blocks up, that is if the swap was ever used. So there's a new dilemma--will the computer utilize swap if it's on another drive, say sdb1 or sdb2? Combining what you suggested with what I said, what do you think about this setup: sda= SSD ; sdb=some other Tb drive at 7200 rpm sda1: 25 gb Primary ext3 for / ( i figured 25 since my packages/apps will be here also) sda2: 15 gb Primary nfts for / (Xp) (can i use nfts for this partition, and could would it still be sda3: 15 gb Primary nfts for / (Windows7) named /?) sda3: 5-6 gb primary/extended for / (another distro) then, sdb1 for /home lots of gb sdb2 for linuxswap 8.5 gb Questions: 1) will my media and documents on sdb1 named /home still be accessible by Xp and windows7 even if it's labeled /home, or would i have to label it /c:/something/something? 2) Or, would I have to make a-whole-nother partition accessible by windows and duplicate files to that partition? 3) can I format one partition with ext3 and another with ntfs? ********************************************************************************************************** On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Tom <[email protected]>wrote: > Your question #79072 on Ubuntu changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/79072 > > Tom posted a new comment: > Hi :) > > Yes, the pathname for my Wine programs is > > /home/user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files > > but only Windows programs get installed there so it's only Windows > programs that get installed into the /home folder. Typically, config > settings will be in a text file like > > /home/user/.neverball/settings/config/neverballrc > > but the actual program will be stored elsewhere and the log-files and > general activity will happen elsewhere, neither will be in /home. Note > the "." in front of system folders so that these folders are considered > "hidden", perhaps even "system-folders". > > I think the main two points with SSDs is that speed is not relative to > distance from the front of the drive and also that there's no read/write > head moving from one area to another in order to read/write. Before all > the blocks in a partition have been written to once, you do get a false > impression of ridiculously fast read/writes but once this honeymoon > period is over you have to settle for normal performance which is merely > phenomenally fast. I'm not sure that saying it's over a certain type of > other drive really does it justice. I get the impression that it would > be like saying that a car is faster than going by foot, faster even than > running! > > Now that i have heard how large your ram is i'm not so sure about > putting it at the front of the drive in a "Primary Partition". It would > make more sense to stick it at the end of the drive inside a Logical > Partition which would be inside an "Extended Partition". Partly that's > because it's difficult for me to adjust to thinking about SSDs but also > as a drive can only have 4 Primary Partitions - or 3 Primary and 1 > Extended, the only way to have more than 4 partitions is to put all the > rest in an Extended Partition. Given that you only need the swap to > cover a scenario much more likely to happen to a laptop and very > unlikely in a desktop machine it seems a waste to give the swap a > Primary Partition. I think i would now be considering something like > this > > sda1 15Gb Primary ext3 for / > sda2 20Gb Primary ext3 for /home - temporarily. Windows Xp here afterwards? > sda3 large Primary for Windows inside a virtual machine again temporarily > as fat32 > sda4 14Gb Extended Partition, this can always be resized later if required > . sda5 5.5Gb unallocated but ready to use for trying out other OS's, such > as other gnu&linux distros > . sda6 8.5Gb Logical Partition for linux-swap > > Ok so i am not sure that virtual machines use real partitions, I'm > completely clueless about that. I do think that Xp is worth having > installed somewhere and it would be remiss to miss out on having > Windows7 somewhere just to see what its like (assuming you don't have to > pay a huge fortune to just try it out) - or at least have a decent space > for it for later. > > The main reason for setting up sda2 & sda3 in this scenario is to keep > all the numbering neat and in the same order as the partitions appear on > the drive. Sometimes i get a bit excessive about tidiness like that. > > That is just my thoughts tho. You might well have a better plan :) > > Anyway, thanks for the link to the SSD article :) > Good luck and regards from > Tom :) > > -- > You received this question notification because you are a direct > subscriber of the question. > -- You received this question notification because you are a member of UF Unanswered Posts Team, which is an answer contact for Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuforums-unanswered More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
