I have already made partitions of 12GB, 12GB, 200GB of NTFS. I still have about 80GB space for all of Linux.
Do I need to reformat disc and partition as suggested by you? Which tool I need to use to create partitions? ParteD? What is the size of IND(0,2)? Mohan. On Nov 25, 2007 12:26 AM, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
