new disk layout

[Bill Davidsen]

Mick M. wrote:
> Hi;
>   I would like some input on disk partitions.
> I bought a 1TB sata drive, it works fine,
> 
> At the moment my system has 3 drives 1 160M IDE and 2 sata 250M and 1TB.
> The IDE is for XP, as it will not see the SATA drives.
> 
> I want to remove the IDE drive and install XPx64 on the new drive as a VirtualBox image.
> I also want to install F11 on that drive.
> 
> My other SATA drive is F10, I want to leave that alone and dual boot F10/F11.
> 
> OK  - what do you suggest for partitions on this drive?
> I want to use "regular" partitions - not the default LVM stuff.
> 
> I was thinking:
> 1 /boot ext3 200M
> 2 swap 82    4G ( I have 2G memory)
> 3 / ext4    250G
> 4 extended   rest about 750G with ext3 
> 
Just a thought on your question, F10 and F11 can share swap (just don't be dumb 
with suspend and hibernate), and if you have /home on its own partition you can 
share that. I don't know if that will allow you more flexibility, or if you 
care, but might be useful.

> Will VirtualBox work with ext4?
> 
I'll pass on that, I use KVM direct from cli.

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