How should I partition?

[krazy1912]

I'm dual booting vista and ubuntu onto a 200 gb hard drive.

[abhishek456]

I'm dual booting vista and ubuntu onto a 200 gb hard drive.

firstly get Gparted LIVECD or LIVEUSB.

boot up using livecd or usb and then create 2 or 3 seperate partions for ubuntu(depending on your choice) and then run ubuntu installation cd

[lufthanza]

you can leave it to ubuntu, which will resize your ntfs part and use the freed up space for itself.

If you want to do it yourself however, resize the ntfs to however much you want, then in the free space create a swap partition equal in size to around 2x your ram, and an ext3 root partition taking up the remaining space. If you want to be fancy, create an ext2 partition to mount as /boot, or an additional ext3 partition to mount at /home.

[durkhrod chogori]

Make sure your hard drive is clean. If that is the case choose the Guided-resize option because is quite easy and straight forward.

I wouldn't suggest you to use Gparted. The newest version (which I tried this morning) is buggy; it didn't read all the messed up partitions of my HDD and wouldn't load.

Here's a better product (and free):

Partition Logic

It has many options: delete, resize, defrag, etc.

Very good and easy to use.

You need to burn the iso file into a CD first.

Here's a free product I use:

CDBurnerXP Pro - free burning solution |Home / News

Make sure when you burn the iso file you select from the menu:

file>Burn disc from ISO file

Here's a quick superbasic guide:

CDBurnerXP - burn CDs and DVDs for free! | Burn ISO image


Just finished installing Mint and this process I just described works like a charm: easy and simple with the right tools.


Good luck.

[flipjargendy]

Here is the partitioning that has saved my butt many times. By doing it this way you save yourself from loosing data or having to back it up when you have to re-install linux for any reason.

I leave at least 12GB for the root directory and a good portion for the /home directory and root directory.
hda1 - Linux root ('/') directory
hda2 - Linux /home directory
hda3 - Linux Swap
hda4 - Windows