On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, V.C.Mohan wrote: > What will be the size of partitions and type of File systems I need to > provide for Linux? I have been reading about dual booting installation but > appears that there are problems. My interest in Linux is to get started in > it, able to do video processing. Which distro will be good? > > mohan >
Hi Mohan: if you have a single 200GB drive, then this general scheme may help you. (hd0,0) : First partition : Primary : winxp : 40GB (hd0,1) : Secnd partition : Primary : Linux : boot partition 512MB : ext2fs (hd0,2) : extended partition (hd0,3) : logical partition : extended : NTFS (4096K page size, no acls) : 60GB (hd0,4) : logical partition : extended : Linux swap : 4GB : run mkswap (hd0,5) : logical partition : extended : Linux root partition : rest of the disk : reiserfs or ext3fs -j ReiserFS is a very good option if you prefer 'high speed access'. ext3fs with journalling is nice to have if you are running database like applications. Please let me know in case you face any issues. thanks Saifi.
