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What's your recommendation on drive partitioning schemes for a desktop and home server?

This thread is a continuation of my failed attempt to install ubuntu on a new pc. Ive decided to reinstall ubuntu by using a simpler partitioning scheme. The one i made had four partitions (/,/boot,/home and swap) and after the booting i got the error i describe in the hyperlink above.

Ultimately which is the most standard partitioning scheme for a simple home user who does not need to install something else in this particular hard drive(320 GB ) ??? Please be specific regarding the type of partitions needed (size,type,primary or logical etc)

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Vaios Argiropoulos
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two primary partitions as follows:

1) main, including root, boot and home most of the disk used except the space for the swap in (2) ext4 this should be set as bootable and root

2) swap partition i've used double the amount of ram for my machine (eg 4GB RAM, swap size 8GB) linux swap set to swap

Hope that helps

Dirk Hartzer Waldeck
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While Dirk answer is the best option for a new user (don't worry about partitions), here is a quite popular and relative simple choice that I use:

  1. Swap: 3 Gb, as big as memory to make hibernate work).
  2. Root (/): 10 Gb, to keep the system files
  3. Home (/home): Rest of disk (148 Gb for me), to keep my files.

It let's me upgrade, use betas, reinstall and just play with the system while keeping my important files in their own place. It's quite similar to the windows option of using two partitions (C: for system and D: for data), but it also keeps some configuration options on /home.

Javier Rivera
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