partition sizes

[taper]

I'm getting my new rig set up, and I'm wondering what size to make my partitions. XP home for gaming, Ubuntu for just about everything else, 2 WD 120GB with RAID 1.

I couldn't see a way for my copy of XP to format other than NTFS, so I'll probably need a swap partition in FAT32 so I can get at stuff in both OS's.

How small can I make each OS's partition without fear of problems, and will I need more than the XP, Ubuntu, and swap?

 

[Padma]

Well, you can make the OS partitions for both XP and Ubuntu rather small, but then you need additional partitions to hold the "non-OS" stuff.

But I daresay that 5G for each OS would be more than sufficient (at least for Ubuntu, I have little to no experience with XP).

BTW, check out CaptiveNTFS for a Linux tool that can write to ntfs partitions. It uses the existing WindowsXP ntfs drivers to do the work, so it is as safe as writing from XP.