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Partition Help XP & Linux, new in Linux

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jayu

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I am builiding a new system now. I am planning to install XP, Suse Linux, and Mand. 81. Linux.I hava some question about partition. My system hardware is. I am newbie in Linxu..

AMD Athlone 1800xp+, 512 DDRAM, 80 GB Western Digital HD, etc..

I have a xp Pro. and Suse 7.3 Pro CD now. From Documentation from SuSe.. I have 80 GB HD, One hard drive can have 4 partion(including Extended Partion)

I plan to devote 60 GB to XP, 10 for Linux SuSe and 10 for Future Mand. 8.1 Linux.
How I shoud do Partiton.

1. 1 primary partition of 60 gb and 1 extended partion.
because according to doc. For Suse Linux I need /boot, swap,root, /home, /user, /opt. /var
a. so I need 7 Logical drive in extended partition. ?
b. How much I shoud devote to each partion ?
But, What about I want to install Mand. 8.1 in future..
How Should I partition for that 8.1, ?
d. Do I have to do it now? Or Can I create more logical drive..

2. Any other idea How shoud I do parition like 3 primary partion ?

Please Help me out.

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For each Linux distro you only need 2 partitions, one for / (root) and one for swap. Swap can be shared between the two.

I would make the swap 512M since that's how much memory you have. And then split the rest of the space up evenly for each distro's root partition. If you want, you can also have a seperate /home that can be shared, that way your docs and setting are the same for each distro, the only thing you'd have to make sure is that you make the user exactly the same in each (mainly the same uid).
 
If you're going to be wanting to change partition sizes in the future, you may want to split the windows partition in 2. If XP is like 2k, you can alter partitions sizes OTHER than the system part.

Make a 30 and a 30. Then if it ever comes arount that you want to rebuild, you'll have a data drive to back up to while you format the main partition as well..
 
Thank u guys,
I have not received all my parts of computer yet. I hopefully get it gone next, I will let u know how it gone.🙂

I have question :
Each distro. need its own /, and swap? As u said, I can share home for diff. distro.
 
Each Linux distro will need its own / partition. They can share the same swap partition. Its sometimes helpful to put /home on its own partition so it too can be shared by both distributions, but if you're just starting out it'll probably be easier for you not to set it up that way.
 
Thank u for replying me.I am newbie to linux, still reading docs came with SuSe.
If i created one partition for windows and in exteded partition /, swap, /home, and / which i can use for other distro.
At that time can I add more logical drive by shrinking that last partion...
 
At that time can I add more logical drive by shrinking that last partion...

Partition Magic 6 or higher can resize ext2 partitions, not reiserfs, XFS and probably not ext3 (well technically it should work, but it would probably refuse to becauase of filesystem features it doesn't understand).

There are also Linux resize programs for certain filesystems, e2resize for ext2, xfs_growfs for XFS (can only make them bigger), reiserfsresize for reiserfs, etc but it wouldn't be easy for someone unfamiliar with Linux.
 
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