[QCLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Culley Smith]

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You might get different suggestions on this.  I set up usually about a gig
for swap.  I guess I could have put /home on a separate partition, but I
never have.  I'd say you wouldn't need much more than 10 GB for the OS.  You
can get by with less, too, if you're not planning to install a lot of
additional software.  Myself, I do a bit of video and web development work,
so allowed 40GB for my OS.  The rest of my storage is on other mounted
devices/partitions.

I've been testing Kubuntu (7.10) as well and I just don't like it as much as
the Gnome desktop.  After two weeks with Kubuntu, I ended up booting back
into Gnome.  I kept having problems with Dolphin.  It crashed on me three or
four times a day, sometimes more.  I also could never get Adept Manager to
work.  Don't mind working with apt-get from the command line, but... who
knows.  Hopefully there will be some improvements in 8.04.

I hear you on VirtualBox.  I was going to use it for a number of tasks, but
the mouse was extremely buggy for me.  So, I'll just dual-boot if I need
to.  The only thing I was needing to even boot into Windows for was to use a
Sonicwall VPN Client.  I wasn't having much luck with OpenSwan.  But, work
is buying me a Sonicwall Box, so... for me, I can do just everything else
under Wine.  Elder Scrolls: Oblivion has good support under Wine and I'm
thinking of giving that a try in the next week or so, when things slow down
at work.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Robert Jones <Robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:

> I've been playing with Kubuntu 8.04 Beta on my laptop and tried
> VirtualBox and some other stuff hoping I could get rid of Vista. I don't
> like VirtualBox so will just have to do a dual boot after all. Oh, Well.
> Maybe later.  I still have a couple of things to look at to see if they
> work with my GPS or not but my hopes aren't high. Anyway, I will be
> setting the laptop back up with 7.10 (or waiting for 8.04 in about a
> month) and need some advice. After my Window Vista is shrunk as far as I
> can take it I have 65 GB to put Kubuntu in. When I set it up I want to
> have the "/", "/home" and or course the "swap" on separate "drives".
> How much of the 65 GB should I assign to the "swap" and "/"?  I don't
> want to crowd them but I don't want to wast space either. Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have A Great Day
> Bob Jones
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