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Ok Soo i've gotta 300gb hard drive and i'm gonna need to run vista and 2.0 is it possible for me to usa partion as a back up so i can save my data on it or w/e and just change OS wheneve w/o loosing data??/ and if i had a "data" partiion could i stor stuff from windows AND linux w/o causin any issues....i guess the long of the short of the question is...

How do you guys have your single hard drive partion set up?

there a how to for that some where??

and lets not forget about a little space for the linux swap partition

Download and burn this. It is straight forward:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

ixnod wrote:and lets not forget about a little space for the linux swap partition

Whats that??

I personally don't use a swap partition if I have 2 gigs of ram or more. I don't use hibernate. It really is up to you if you feel it is what you want or need. If something starts to go bonkers, I go to System Monitor and kill the process(in Windows the task manager).Some video games will take a full gig of ram on their own. I don't play those games. I find things much more responsive, not trusting the operating system to decide what to swap(or page). When I use Windows, I turn off page filing(you have to edit the registry) and system restore(I have a backup image of my os drive). It is a matter of preference, really!!

i've finished my hard drive partioning just in time for 2.0 i've got 320gbs 100 going to vista-32 bit and vista apps, 110 going to 1.9 64-bit (soon to be 2.0), and a 110 gb just for files...it worked out great thank you all for your help

Redeemed wrote:i've finished my hard drive partioning just in time for 2.0 i've got 320gbs 100 going to vista-32 bit and vista apps, 110 going to 1.9 64-bit (soon to be 2.0), and a 110 gb just for files...it worked out great thank you all for your help

WHAT!!! no swap, after Nick's explanation???

On one 400GB hard drive I've got:

(hd0,0) sda1 = swap (1gb) primary
(hd0,1) sda2 = mastergrub (1gb) primary
(hd0,2) sda3 = mydata (~231gb) primary
(hd0,3) sda4 = extended (~N/Agb)
(hd0,4) sda5 = Kubuntu Hardy x64 (~15gb)
(hd0,5) sda6 = Custom Hardy (~15gb)
(hd0,6) sda7 = Ultimate x64 (~15gb)
(hd0,7) sda8 = OS not installed (~15gb)
(hd0,8) sda9 = Intrepid x86 (~15gb)
(hd0,9) sda10 = Intrepid x86_64 (~15gb)
(hd0,10) sda11 = Busted slackware 12.1 (lol lilo didn't install right:P GRUB FTW!) (~15gb)
(hd0,11) sda12 = OS not installed (~15gb)
(hd0,12) sda13 = OS not installed (~15gb)
(hd0,13) sda14 = OS not installed (~15gb)
(hd0,14) sda15 = OS not installed (~15gb)

I originally was thinking of setting up a hide/unhide partition scheme with grub so I could get 44 partitions, but I don't really have a need for it at this point.

This is by far the best information on hard drive partitions I have ever come across and I'm sold:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?p=861282

Hey guys!

Do you all install linux to 1 partition like windows? Don't you split your / & /home partitions?